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Generate at Least Three Options to Depersonalise Design Debates

Generate at Least Three Options to Depersonalise Design Debates

by Organisers @virtualddd | Dec 15, 2025

When exploring solutions, always generate at least three distinct alternatives. Having only two options often leads to an "us versus them" dynamic and a false dichotomy. A third option encourages more creative thinking and helps break stalemates by providing...
Generate at Least Three Options to Depersonalise Design Debates

EventStorming: Make a ceremony of throwing things away

by Organisers @virtualddd | Dec 3, 2025

When people are new to EventStorming, their initial approach is often to be reluctant to write things that aren't 100% correct. By making an example of the first sticky you throw away as a facilitator, you allow everyone to try something, be wrong, and improve...
Generate at Least Three Options to Depersonalise Design Debates

EventStorming: One (co-)facilitator for every 15 participants

by Organisers @virtualddd | Dec 3, 2025

For a Big Picture EventStorming, we can have around 20-30+ people per wall – but even an experienced facilitator will have a hard time noticing subtleties, body language and tonal nuances when more than 2-3 conversations are going on at the same time. Limit the...
Generate at Least Three Options to Depersonalise Design Debates

EventStorming: Split and merge during converging discussions

by Organisers @virtualddd | Dec 3, 2025

When there are competing ideas during an eventstorming, we want to visualise both ideas. Split both discussion, discuss and then merge. Examples When we are in the converging phase of eventstorming, we already moved a lot of ideas. Sometimes new ideas pop up. When we...
Generate at Least Three Options to Depersonalise Design Debates

EventStorming: Switch to Example Mapping when discussing examples of business rules

by Organisers @virtualddd | Dec 3, 2025

During Process or Design level EventStorming we can get stuck in talking about invisible things for business constraint/rule like the purple or yellow sticky. It happens that we get into the use cases or examples discussion, it is here were we switch to Example...
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