Effective software teams take a torrent of information and knowledge about their subject matter (the domain) and distill it into a stream of quality software. Finding and exploiting domain models is a key to success in projects with complex domains. In this 1-day Domain Driven Design workshop you will learn the basic principles and processes needed to develop the right kind of models, tie them into implementation and business analysis, and deal with some of the realities of multi-team projects.

Build your awareness of the basic concepts and value of Domain-Driven Design (DDD) in one day.

• Understand what DDD is and when and why it is valuable to software intensive organizations.
• Overview the basic principles and processes needed develop the useful sort of models, tie them into implementation and business analysis, and place them within a viable, realistic strategy.

Morning: Ubiquitous Language & Model Discovery

• What is DDD?
• What makes a model useful to a software project?
• Cultivation of a model-based language to connect domain experts, developers, and the code itself
• Exploratory interaction of technical and business people in the modeling process
• Aggregates: A taste of rigor. This pattern addresses, at the model level, the scaling of systems in complexity, performance, and distribution.

Afternoon: Strategic Design

• Distilling the Core Domain: Focusing fine modeling and design into those subdomains where the organization distinguishes itself
• Clarifying a shared vision
• Context Mapping: A pragmatic approach to dealing with the diversity models and processes on real large projects with multi-team/multi-subsystem development.
• Combining the Core Domain and Context Map to illuminate Strategic Design options for a project.