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
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