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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.
Table of Content
1. The essence of Event storming
2. Big picture Event Storming
- Why would you want to run a Big-Picture event storming?
- How to prepare a Big-Picture Event Storming workshop
- How to prepare the room for a Big-Picture Event Storming
- What to say at the beginning of a Big-Picture Event Storming
- Step by Step Guide to run your Big-Picture Event Storming
- Improve collaboration with a Functional Architecture vision draft
- Decide to Build or Buy with Big-Picture Event Storming
- Read this before applying Big Picture Event Storming to Legacy Systems
- Big Picture Event Storming in 3 minutes
3. Design Level Event Storming
- Why should you run a Design-Level Event Storming?
- How to explain Design-Level Event Storming to your mother
- The Best Agenda For Design-Level Event Storming
- Design-Level Event Storming in 3 minutes
4. Event Storming the flow
- 3 questions to know if Event Storming the Flow can help you
- 5 ingredients to prepare before starting an Event Storming the Flow
- Follow these steps to visualize your workflow with Event Storming
- How Metaphors can help you focus and succeed in Event Storming
- How to discover the wicked vicious circles in your workflow?
- Identify where to act to improve your workflow
- Define actions that unlock lasting workflow improvements
- Event Storming the flow in 3 minutes
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
- The ideal room for your in-person event storming
- Popular Event Storming facilitation tips you need to know
- How to manage time efficiently during your event storming?
- How To Ruin An Event Storming With Two Little Techie Mistakes
- 5 Reliable Tricks To Maximize Shared Knowledge In Event Storming
- Need Help with Event Storming? The community has your back!
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.