EventStorming is a great way to engage stakeholders and design modern Event-Driven systems. Still, as a software practitioner, your main goal is to write software. Some of the most spectacular features of a Big Picture workshop - many participants and politics - may not be for you. We designed this format to fit the specific needs of EventStorming for software development in one day only.

Agenda

• We’ll seed the modelling space with a specific business problem.
• We’ll explore just enough complexity to get started and discover some of the common patterns and antipatterns.
• We’ll set up teams working together against modelling challenges of growing complexity.
• We’ll wrap-up discussing strategies to turn our emergent models into code, acceptance tests and so on.

Topics

• Main EventStorming formats (short).
• Mechanics of Software Design EventStorming format.
• EventStorming as a collaborative game: rules and tactics.
• Modelling Heuristics.
• Modelling components by events and responsibilities.
• Interpersonal modelling dynamics.
• Emergent Bounded Contexts and how to detect them.

Approach
We’ll do just a minimal introduction to get started, and then practice and discovery will lead the way. We will highlight and document our discoveries and achievements along the way, reflecting and discussing together after every round.

Preconditions

• Familiarity with software development and the key concepts of Domain-Driven Design and Event Sourcing.
• Decent handwriting 😁

Courseware
Workshop Takeaway and Cheat Sheet.