The EventStorming Handbook
Unlocking Creativity, Collaboration, and Communication for Your Teams
Need a quick introduction to running an effective EventStorming session? This book is a handy quick start guide for anyone wanting to learn how to facilitate an EventStorming session.
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About the Book
EventStorming is a very flexible approach to collaborative modeling that is continuing to grow and evolve as practitioners innovate and adapt it to new problems. I hope you will do the same! Start with trying out the basic recipes in this book, and see what works in your context.
The book is concise, actionable, and highly visual, containing only the essentials needed for you to be successful. if you are struggling with working in a complex business domain, especially where the complexity is in the business processes and system behavior, then this EventStorming Handbook provides techniques for better solutions to be delivered faster through collaborative modeling.
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- Big Picture Event Storming - 5 Step Guide [Early Access Edition]A quick-reference guide to print and hand out to your big picture event storming workshop attendees. Good for attendees needing to know "the rough plan". This is an early access edition, to be used with The Event Storming Handbook, and subject to revision.
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- Big Picture Event Storming - 5 Step Guide [Early Access Edition]A quick-reference guide to print and hand out to your big picture event storming workshop attendees. Good for attendees needing to know "the rough plan". This is an early access edition, to be used with The Event Storming Handbook, and subject to revision.
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Author
About the Author
Paul Rayner is a developer, instructor, coach and popular conference speaker. He is founder and chairman of the Explore DDD conference. He provides Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and EventStorming workshops, training and coaching through his consultancy Virtual Genius. Paul lives in Denver, Colorado, with his wife and two teenagers.
Contents
Table of Contents
- About This Book
- Preface
- Part I - Ingredients
- 1. What is EventStorming?
- 1.1. Some Worthy Goals
- 1.2. The Shape of EventStorming
- 1.3. How I Started
- 1.4. Visualizing the Invisible
- 2. Your First EventStorming Session
- 2.1. Show An Example
- 2.2. Happily Ever After
- 2.3. Start With Events
- 2.4. Capturing Questions
- 2.5. Setting up the Modeling Space
- 2.6. The Invitation
- 2.7. Getting Started
- 3. Facilitation Basics
- 3.1. Playing the Game
- 3.2. Intentional Discovery
- 3.3. Open at the Close
- 3.4. Tips and Tricks
- 4. Emerging Structure
- 4.1. Key Events
- 4.2. Milestones
- 4.3. Alternate Paths
- 4.4. Themes
- 4.5. Facilitation Tips
- 4.6. How to Handle Loops
- 5. Actors and Systems
- 5.1. Interactions with People
- 5.2. Systems
- 5.3. Sociotechnical Vision
- 5.4. SEP Fields
- 6. Walking The Narrative
- 6.1. Why Walk?
- 6.2. Telling the Story
- 6.3. A Sample Story
- 7. Documenting Language
- 7.1. Exposing Language Messiness
- 7.2. Capturing Critical Concepts
- 8. Policies and Decisions
- 8.1. Making Constraints Explicit
- 8.2. Magic Happens
- 8.3. What Else Can Happen?
- 8.4. Decisions
- 9. Visualizing Experiences
- 9.1. Data
- 1. What is EventStorming?