Week 30, year 2014
- Event Storming: on Fake Domains and Happy Paths - Inspired by Tim Schraepen’s experience report, I thought I’d list some recent experiences with facilitating Event Storming sessions. You might want to read my older post with notes on facilitating Event Storming sessions, and the huge amount of content Alberto Brandolini has produced on the topic. Pick a good domain If you’re doing it as an exercise, as opposed to a real project, pick a real(-ish) domain. I’ve been using a government/education project for a long time, because it’s complex, vague, messy, and in constant motion. It turned out to be great domain to teach participants about challenging your own assumptions. For example, report cards that do not show grades, but observations and conclusions, some of which are written by the actual pupils! The discovery phase is quite useful, but as soon as we tried working towards a more concrete model, the rather “fluffy” domain was too hard to explain. [Mathias Verraes]