Eric Evans' 4-day Domain Driven Design Hands-On Immersion Workshop will teach you how to put the domain model to work. Finding and exploiting domain models is key to success with large software systems. By cultivating a strong connection between the language used by developers, appropriate models can dramatically accelerate the process of translating customer needs into working software. Strong domain modelling coupled with programming best practices such as exploiting design patterns, refactoring, and test-driven development result in a principled yet practical approach to the development of large software systems.

This intensive course will teach you how to strike a healthy balance between digging into your subject matter and addressing technological issues, which, while unavoidable, cannot be allowed to dominate the development process for commercially viable systems.

We weave together lecture, discussion and classroom exercises, including hands-on coding projects. In discussions, you will have the opportunity to discuss your own experiences and relate your own work to the principles and techniques presented in the class.

Delegates will also receive a copy of Domain-driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software during the course.

You will learn to strike a healthy balance between digging into your subject matter and addressing technological issues, which, while unavoidable, cannot be allowed to dominate the development process for commercially viable systems.

Day 1: Morning Model Exploration and Ubiquitous Language

• Domain-driven design overview
• Making implicit concepts explicit
• Ubiquitous Language

Day 1 Afternoon Jumping in with code

• Brainstorming models
• Expressing a model in software
• Building-block patterns (entities, value objects, repositories, etc.)
• Test-first development as a modeling process

Day 2 Morning: Modeling with Domain Experts

• Techniques and pitfalls of bringing about a creative collaboration.
• Modeling out loud

Day 2 Afternoon Supple Design

• Patterns and techniques to tighten models and their connection to code
• Making code obvious, easier to use and change
• Modeling for transactional integrity and distributed systems

Day 3 Morning Strategic Design: Context Mapping

• Pragmatic approach to dealing with diverse models and designs on real projects
• Relationships between subsystems/ relationships between teams

Day 3 Afternoon Distilling the Core Domain

• Distinguishing the core from the mass
• Ways of focusing effort
• Clarifying a shared vision
• Setting up a project for success

Day 4 Bringing it Together

• Design/code challenge - model supple design with context map
• Round-table discussion of SOA and enterprise frameworks with DDD
• In-depth discussion and Q&A, relating all topics to each other and to your own work