EventStorming is a family of workshop formats that helps explore, map and design complex business flows, leveraging natural storytelling and an event-driven structure.
The three main formats will let you dive into intricate domains, zooming into details without losing coherence.
- Big Picture enables highly time-effective, large-scale discovery of complex landscapes. It blends different perspectives into a coherent shape and then uses this background for layered discovery and mapping.
- Process Modelling leverages a flexible, colourful grammar and a collaborative game approach to engage experts and stakeholders in a robust representation of a business process, suitable for discovery or design.
- Software Design leverages the same principles to bring collaborative design towards modern event-driven software solutions.
Together, they let you dissect complex domains and design effective solutions, combining different perspectives into a solution with built-in support from the workshop participants.
It’s the developer understanding, not the expert knowledge, that becomes working code.
In an EventStorming workshop, we make everybody’s understanding visible to unlock faster, more meaningful problem resolution.
What you will learn
EventStorming notation is designed to be simple. Managing the room is tricky.
This Master Class will make you feel the critical moments of a large-scale workshop, and provide actionable tips on the soft skills of facilitation: how to kick off the workshop, how to read the room signals, handle emergent conflicts and address counterproductive behaviour.
We will practice the three formats on a realistic problem space. In layers of increased complexity and changing collaboration style along the way.
You will learn how to run the standard recipe and how to design, prepare, and fine-tune your workshop to address your specific constraints and needs.
The Trainer
Alberto Brandolini is the creator of the EventStorming format, and will hide no secrets from a curious mind.
A software architect with 20+ years of experience in Domain-Driven Design, a system thinker, entrepreneur, and facilitator, he will help you see the connections and the frictions between the different disciplines.
His book Introducing EventStorming is probably the most successful unfinished book on the Leanpub platform.
Alberto is also the person behind the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle.
Target audience
EventStorming is interdisciplinary and targets collaboration among different roles. Software professionals will learn a more reliable and time-effective way to master domain complexity and detect signals for effective design. UX experts will learn an effective way to include the user perspective in software design. Business experts will have a powerful tool to envision and sharpen key processes and business lines.
Together, they will learn how to balance their perspective into a more powerful, coherent view.
Agenda
Day 1 – EventStorming as a discovery tool
- Quick kick-off: where we are and where we want to go.
- Real-world Big Picture EventStorming, mastering complexity and unknowns in large-scale modelling.
- Reading implicit signals, areas of friction, and emergent boundaries.
- Managing conflicts, highlighting risk, and the problems that are really worth solving
- Explicit walkthrough: making sure the model matches the conversation.
- Dive into motivators and opportunities for change.
- Detecting signals for architectural and organisational design.
- Actionable insights: how to turn the discoveries into a plan.
Day 2 – EventStorming as a design tool
- Emerging System Boundaries: from EventStorming to Bounded Contexts
- Process Modelling EventStorming: a cross-discipline platform for collaborative modelling
- Leveraging the grammar structure to build robust flow and ask uncomfortable questions.
- Strategies for the collaborative game. Opening moves, collaboration styles, and understanding when to switch.
- Making policies explicit. Discovering the hidden truth in business behaviour
- Design around Value: hidden and explicit motivators.
- Manage your biases in collaborative design.
- Software Design EventStorming: discovering key software components
- Aggregates and transactional consistency: independent moving parts in a complex software system
- Design around the bottleneck: alternatives to YAGNI.
- Blending User Experience Design and Service Design into Software Design
- Transitioning from sticky notes to working code.
F.A.Q.
Is the EventStorming Remote Modelling Workshop a comparable alternative?
Not exactly: Big Picture dynamics and principles are really different when happening in-person vs remotely, and there’s no way to have participants feel one type of the experience if you are in the other container. The Big picture is also less effective when played remotely.
The EventStorming Remote Modelling is designed to help you facilitate and design online workshops, whereas the EventStorming Master Class is aimed at teaching you how to facilitate an in-person EventStorming session.
So the answer is: no, the EventStorming Master Class and the EventStorming Remote Modelling Workshop are two different things.
Entry-level: Is there anything I need to know before joining this Master Class?
No prior experience with EventStorming is required. However, you’re welcome to check out the EventStorming Website.
Tools & Laptop: Do I need my laptop?
You won’t need a laptop in order to join this Master Class. In this highly interactive workshop, you’ll be engaging with Alberto Brandolini and other attendees for the majority of the time. We’ll also spend a lot of time standing and walking around, so please remember to wear comfortable shoes.
Learning materials: Will there be anything to take away with me after the Master Class is over?
Yes, there will be some booklets and other learning materials for you to take home.
About the workshop
Venue: nhow Hotel, Stralauer Allee 3, Berlin
Language: English
Time: from 9.30 am to 5.30 pm each day
Max number of participants: 16 people
Dress code: Informal. We recommend you wear comfortable shoes as the majority of the activities will involve walking around and standing up most of the time
Included in the price: arrival coffee break, lunch and afternoon coffee break, each day
Not included in the price: travel and accommodation
Book it for your company
Contact us using the form at the bottom of this page if you wish to arrange a private custom edition of the EventStorming Master Class.
Testimonials
Also thanks to its inclusion in ThoughtWorks’ 2018 radar in the “Adopt” techniques, EventStorming became the de-facto standard in the Domain-Driven Design community for exploring and designing complex interactions.
A wide range of organisations has benefited from it: from online marketplaces to financial and trading institutions; from small startups to large-scale enterprises… and anything in between!
It’s no wonder EventStorming can be used in all types of business scenarios!
Read what people are saying about EventStorming:
Great experience! Alberto was a great trainer, even for non-technical people like me; I was able to learn by practising and getting real-life tips to put in place! Can’t wait to get EventStorming in my company!Flora Layni
Really engaging two days, definitely worth your time if you’re interested in business or software modelling. This has immediately given me some additional tools to work with, and a lot to think about! I would not hesitate to sign up for another Avanscoperta workshop.Wayne Durack
It was a great experience to learn from Alberto, and to share the learning experience with the other attendees. The group was just the right size for this type of hands-on workshop. We could all get to know each other and benefit from each others perspectives and views. Alberto succeeds in creating an atmosphere where everyone can feel comfortable to try without reservations, and learn from first making mistakes.Sara Van Der Bruggen
I would highly recommend the EventStorming Masterclass to everyone willing to take a step further in being able to tackle challenging business and software design situations.Dmitry Ledentsov
Very insightful Master Class, my only regret is not taking it sooner!Jean Reis
I simply loved it. EventStorming is filling so many gaps in my daily business.Marc Lilienthal
Anyone involved in Digital Product Development should attend the EventStorming Master Class!Alex Jäger
Alberto and the Avanscoperta team: you created a fantastic training experience during “EventStorming Master Class”!
I felt already welcome at the time of booking the ticket, then experienced a training that was packed with knowledge and practical experience, and later received a wonderfully complete aftermath email with lots of stuff I can use to make my event storming sessions a success.
Thanks a lot!Matthias Bohlen – Software Consultant
Event Storming is a fantastic technique for eliciting information from the entire team and enabling a shared understanding.Claire Montgomery
