From EventStorming to CoDDDing

To really understand what our users need so that we can build the right thing, we want to have a first-hand experience of 'real-life stories' before we model and create our software. To quote Alberto Brandolini "it is not the domain expert's knowledge that goes into production, it is the developer's assumption of that knowledge...

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Designing Bounded Contexts for Microservices Using Visual Collaboration

There is an industry trend where businesses are moving towards autonomous product teams. These teams aim to be end-to-end responsible for the product they are building and maintaining. With the help of Continuous Delivery, teams have faster feedback cycles in which they can probe if a certain feature works. To achieve end-to-end team autonomy, companies...

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Enterprise Architecture & DDD: Partners in Design

Did you ever experiment tension between different people inside of an organisation, with regards to design strategies? On one field, the Enterprise Architects and their business capabilities, and on the other side the Domain-Driven Design practitioners with their patterns? Endless hours of discussion about the design strategy, leading to waste and polarisation. What if we could...

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Hands-on visual and collaborative modelling with EventStorming

The Open Group recently published the Open Agile Architecture™ standard, which offers an approach to architects at scale with agility. It provides guidance and best practices for Enterprise Architects seeking to transition into Agile and Digital contexts. It also puts a focus on Domain-Driven Design as an approach to software delivery. In this panel, our...

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Panel: Practical Open Agile Architecture standard and Domain-Driven Design

The Open Group recently published the Open Agile Architecture™ standard, which offers an approach to architects at scale with agility. It provides guidance and best practices for Enterprise Architects seeking to transition into Agile and Digital contexts. It also puts a focus on Domain-Driven Design as an approach to software delivery. In this panel, our...

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