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Systems Mapping method illustration showing its working structure
Systems Thinking
Systems Mapping
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Paper illustration for CATWOE Analysis.
Systems Thinking
CATWOE Analysis
Purposedifferent
Systems Mapping arranges elements, relationships, and boundaries so a complex field becomes legible at a glance. The overview stabilizes the overall picture before detail work or steering begins.Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting.CATWOE structures a problem from six viewpoints and prevents too narrow a view of the situation. Different experiences of the system become comparably discussable this way.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 h30 min Setup, dann laufend45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-121-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone3-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
System Map, Dependencies, Leverage PointsRAID Log, Status Report SourceCATWOE Canvas, Root Definition, Stakeholder Perspectives, Constraints
Tagsno overlap
Systems thinkingMappingBoundariesChange
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
Systems thinkingFramingStakeholders
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Paper illustration: scenarios and architectural decisions are connected to identified risks.
Architecture
ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)
Paper illustration for Future Reality Tree.
Systems Thinking
Future Reality Tree
Paper illustration for Intervention Mapping.
Systems Thinking
Intervention Mapping
Paper illustration for Knowledge Mapping.
Knowledge Modeling
Knowledge Mapping