Keynote: Joys and Pitfalls of Collaborative Modelling

Featuring Alberto Brandolini

Modelling together can be a bliss, or it can turn into a painful experience. Shifting from an individual activity to a shared, collaborative one will expose thinking habits and fallacies that play a surprising role in our design process.

Hands-on: Master your Domain with Domain Storytelling

Featuring Henning Schwentner

Domain-driven design practioners want to identify bounded contexts and work out ubiquitous languages. Domain experts, however, often work together across contexts. The boundaries that shape your software systems must therefore not become borders that segregate people. DomainStorytelling helps you...

Stability and Change in Bounded Micro-Worlds

Featuring Jenny Quillien

Domain Driven Design is not particularly interested in simple problems of only one or two variables (tackled decades ago in the banking industry with the routinization of transactions). Nor is it particularly interested in problems of probabilities and statistics (tackled decades ago in the...

Opening Keynote

Unconference

Featuring Gayathri Thiyagarajan

Excited to be part of the #DDDX Unconference? Read below!

This is one of the most fun and stimulating moments of DDDX, and will take place on the afternoon of Friday 27th April, and it will be facilitated by Gayathri Thiyagarajan. Keep an eye on the whiteboards around the venue as we'll be...

Keynote: Design Heuristics

Featuring Mathias Verraes

Software design principles aspire to be universal. And yet, when you create software, you sometimes intentionally violate principles.

Lightning Talk: I got Trapped. Stories of System Traps in the IT

Featuring Kenny Baas Schwegler

Donella Meadows book, Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem-solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. In her book, Donella describes eight system traps and how to get out of it.

Lessons Learned: Rebuilding Legacy Apps with Domain-Driven Design

Featuring Kacper Gunia

Domain-Driven Design techniques give us guidance when modelling and building applications. The question is - how to make the best use of it when rewriting something that already exists?

Unconference: Round Up Presentation!

Featuring Gayathri Thiyagarajan

Join us for the round up presentation of the Unconference.

Keynote - Interviewing Domain Experts: Heuristics from the Trenches

Featuring Cyrille Martraire

Deep conversations with domain experts and careful attention to the language are central in software development and in particular in Domain-Driven Design (DDD). However, it takes many years and many failures to get better at this game.