Domain Storytelling: A Collaborative, Visual, and Agile Way to Build Domain-Driven Software

Length: 288 pages
Edition: 1
Language: English
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Publication Date: 2021-10-11
ISBN-10: 0137458916
ISBN-13: 9780137458912
Sales Rank: #936394 (See Top 100 Books)

Build Better Business Software by Telling and Visualizing Stories

“From a story to working software–this book helps you to get to the essence of what to build. Highly recommended!”
–Oliver Drotbohm

Storytelling is at the heart of human communication–why not use it to overcome costly misunderstandings when designing software? By telling and visualizing stories, domain experts and team members make business processes and domain knowledge tangible. Domain Storytelling enables everyone to understand the relevant people, activities, and work items. With this guide, the method’s inventors explain how domain experts and teams can work together to capture insights with simple pictographs, show their work, solicit feedback, and get everyone on the same page.

Stefan Hofer and Henning Schwentner introduce the method’s easy pictographic language, scenario-based modeling techniques, workshop format, and relationship to other modeling methods. Using step-by-step case studies, they guide you through solving many common problems:

Fully align all project participants and stakeholders, both technical and business-focused
Master a simple set of symbols and rules for modeling any process or workflow
Use workshop-based collaborative modeling to find better solutions faster
Draw clear boundaries to organize your domain, software, and teams
Transform domain knowledge into requirements, embedded naturally into an agile process
Move your models from diagrams and sticky notes to code
Gain better visibility into your IT landscape so you can consolidate or optimize it

This guide is for everyone who wants more effective software–from developers, architects, and team leads to the domain experts, product owners, and executives who rely on it every day.

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Cover Page
About This eBook
Halftitle Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contents
Domain Stories
Series Editor Foreword
Foreword
Preface
    Who Should Read This Book
    This Book in the Software Development Landscape
    What This Book Covers
    Conventions
    Legend for “Opening Stories”
    Supplementary Materials
    About the Cover
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Part I. Domain Storytelling Explained
    Chapter 1. Introduction
        What Is Domain Storytelling?
        Your First Domain Story
    Chapter 2. The Pictographic Language
        Actors
        Work Objects
        Activities
        Sequence Numbers
        Annotations
        Modeling Canvas
        Groups
        Colors
        No Conditionals
        Putting It All Together
        A Grammar for Domain Stories
        Good Language Style
    Chapter 3. Scenario-Based Modeling
        What Are Scenarios?
        Scenarios in Domain Storytelling
        Concrete Examples as Scenarios
        Keeping an Overview
    Chapter 4. Scope
        Granularity
        Point in Time (As-Is vs. To-Be)
        Domain Purity (Pure vs. Digitalized)
        Combining the Scope Factors: A Typical Journey
    Chapter 5. Modeling Tools
        Modeling on Paper or Boards
        Modeling with Software Tools
        Choosing a Tool
    Chapter 6. The Workshop Format
        Before the Workshop
        The Workshop
        After the Workshop
        To-Be Workshops
        Remote Workshops
        The Moderator
        The Modeler as Separate Role
        Moderated Mode vs. Co-Op Mode
    Chapter 7. Relationship to Other Modeling Methods
        Domain-Driven Design
        EventStorming
        User Story Mapping
        Example Mapping
        Storystorming
        Use Cases
        UML
        BPMN
        Summary
Part II. Using and Adapting Domain Storytelling for Different Purposes
    Chapter 8. Case Study—Alphorn Auto Leasing Inc.
        Explore Alphorn—The Domain as a Whole
        Drill Down into Risk Assessment—Understanding an Important Subdomain
        Clear Up Risk Assessment—Avoid Technical Jargon
        Optimize Risk Assessment—The To-Be Process
        Introduce New Software—Combine Business Processes with IT Support
        Summary
    Chapter 9. Learning Domain Language
        Speaking and Listening to Understand Each Other
        Organizations Speak Many Domain Languages
        Using Natural Languages
        Lost in Translation
        What to Read Next?
    Chapter 10. Finding Boundaries
        The Joy of Multiple Models
        A Heuristic for Finding Subdomains
        From Subdomains to Bounded Contexts
        From Context Boundaries to Team Boundaries
        What to Read Next?
    Chapter 11. Working with Requirements
        Software Development as a Series of Conversations
        From Domain Stories to Requirements
        Adapt the Recipe
        Limitations
        What to Read Next?
    Chapter 12. Modeling in Code
        From Domain Stories to Domain Model
        Implementing the Domain Model
        What to Read Next?
    Chapter 13. Supporting Organizational Change
        Changing People’s Workflows
        Digitalizing Work
        What to Read Next?
    Chapter 14. Deciding Make or Buy and Choosing Off-the-Shelf Software
        Understand the Processes of Off-the-Shelf Solutions
        What to Read Next?
    Chapter 15. Finding Shadow IT
        Not Only Software Developers Develop Software
        Making Hidden Software Systems Visible
        What to Read Next?
    Chapter 16. Conclusion
        The Future of Domain Storytelling
        The Essence of Domain Storytelling
Appendix. The History of Domain Storytelling
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Code Snippets