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Close collaboration between business and tech is great on paper… but how do you do it, concretely?

Event Storming looks like a great way to get started, but it’s a scary beast to master! How do I actually run this workshop with more than 10 people?

This mini Event Storming e-book is a step by step guide that will successfully lead you through your first workshop!

It’s short. You can read it in less than 1 hour.
It covers the 3 main flavors of Event Storming.
It contains a full part about remote facilitations.
It will save you from typical mistakes with 25 facilitation tips that we learnt the hard way.

And guess what? It even contains drawings! Start reading now, and in 1 hour, you’ll be ready to run your first Event Storming.

Is this book for you?

This book is for people who work in software organizations, and who belive that there is a better way to work together!

Read it and you will learn how to use Event Storming to break silos and to find the middle way between centralization and chaos.

What if I don’t have a technical background?

Event Storming emerged from the Domain-Driven Design community, which mostly consists of developers and architects. Yet, one objective of this book is to bring Event Storming to the masses, out of the technical circles.

Preamble: how to read this book?

You are not holding a book. You are holding a toolbox!

a set of tools avaialble to pick.

Event Storming can be used to address a variety of challenges. Like a tool that you use for a specific task, each of the following reading paths targets a specific need or challenge.

Our goal with this book is to offer practical and applicable guidance while keeping the reading time under 1 hour, so:

If you need a quick 10 min introduction to what Event Storming is about, read
- The essence of Event storming,
- Why would you want to run a Big-Picture event storming? And a Design-Level Event Storming?? and 3 questions to know if Event Storming the Flow can help you.
For a comprehensive overview of event storming: Start with The essence of Event storming and then move to “Big picture Event Storming.”
If you are interested in improving collaboration when doing architecture:
- Dive into Big picture Event Storming to explore the problem space with a large audience.
- Or read Design Level Event Storming to dive into the Domain Driven Design for a core functional area.
To optimize workflows: begin with Event Storming the flow and to then Identify where to act to improve your workflow.
For remote facilitation: go directly to Rethinking Event Storming in Remote. In case you are completely new to event storming, we advise you to start with one of the above proposals first.
For general tips and best practices to improve your practice of event storming: check out General tips and, more specifically, Popular Event Storming facilitation tips you need to know.

Table of Content

1. The essence of Event storming

2. Big picture Event Storming

3. Design Level Event Storming

4. Event Storming the flow

5. Rethinking Event Storming in Remote

Why Go Remote with Event Storming? The Surprising Benefits
Remote Event Storming Simplified: 7 Essential Practices
Remote Event Storming: Your Step-by-Step Preparation Guide
Remote Event Storming Made Easy: a Step-by-Step Success Guide
Leverage splitting a session in small chunks in remote
How to keep people engaged in a remote Event Storming
Remote Event Storming in 3 minutes

6. General tips

7. Conclusion

Acknowledgment

Big thanks to Murex for supporting us in writing this Event Storming book. Murex is hiring, check Murex’s career website if you are interested.

The 1 Hour Event Storming Book

Matthieu Tournemire & Philippe Bourgau