Storystorming DDD Vienna

Storystorming (https://storystorming.com/) is a toolbox and mashup of existing methods to collaboratively explore user journeys, work procedures and business processes and refine them into working software models. Storystorming facilitates many opportunities for collaboration between business and technology experts, helps them to visually connect the dots and discover what your organisation needs to be successful.

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1. Storystorming
   DDD Vienna
   

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2. Storystorming
   

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3. Why?
   

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5. Writing code
   is modeling reality
   new
   

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6. Our mental models are the first models which matter.
   

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9. I imagine and expect us to be living a mindset of
   80% collaboration
   

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10. © Paul Rayner‘s
    „Essential DDD“ workshop
    in Denver 2018
    `s three pillars
    

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11. Basic Building Blocks
    Human
    or Group
    Command
    or Activity
    Machine
    or Component
    Question
    or Search
    Behavior
    or Decision
    Statement
    or Object
    Attention
    or Uncertainty
    Event
    or Exception
    Deliverable
    or Proposal
    Storystorming
    

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12. Storystorming
    

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13. Behavior
    or Decision
    Behavior
    Human
    or Group
    Command
    or Activity
    Machine
    or Component
    Question
    or Search
    Statement
    or Object
    Attention
    or Uncertainty
    Event
    or Exception
    Deliverable
    or Proposal
    Brewing a
    coffee Selecting
    more sugar
    Selecting
    amount of
    beans
    

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14. Participants
    Human
    or Group
    Machine
    or Component
    Command
    or Activity
    Question
    or Search
    Statement
    or Object
    Attention
    or Uncertainty
    Event
    or Exception
    Deliverable
    or Proposal
    Behavior
    or Decision
    Employee
    Coffee
    Machine
    Barista
    

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15. Messages
    & Language
    Command
    or Activity
    Question
    or Search
    Statement
    or Object
    Event
    or Exception
    Behavior
    or Decision
    Human
    or Group
    Machine
    or Component
    Attention
    or Uncertainty
    Deliverable
    or Proposal
    Brew a pot
    of coffee!
    Is coffee
    left in the
    pot ?
    The pot is
    empty.
    The coffee
    is ready!
    

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16. Implementation
    Knowns & Unknowns
    Attention
    or Uncertainty
    Deliverable
    or Proposal
    Behavior
    or Decision
    Human
    or Group
    Command
    or Activity
    Machine
    or Component
    Question
    or Search
    Statement
    or Object
    Event
    or Exception
    Regulate
    heating
    plate
    Does the
    heating plate
    need access to
    espresso machine
    events?
    

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17. Human
    or Group
    Command
    or Activity
    Machine
    or Component
    Question
    or Search
    Behavior
    or Decision
    Statement
    or Object
    Attention
    or Uncertainty
    Event
    or Exception
    Deliverable
    or Proposal
    https://storystorming.com
    

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18. Storystorming
    

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19. Easily explore specific domain scenarios!
    EVENTSTORMiNG
    

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20. Easily explore specific domain scenarios!
    

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21. My Domain Storytelling Scenario
    o I need to get an understanding of the problem addressed by some
    work procedures carried out by certain people, BUT …
    o the people who know the details are domain experts, not trained
    business analysts, software designers or software developers
    o discussions tend to end up in details and it is difficult for me to see the
    wood for the trees, often because of all the "brownfield" we are in
    o I feel that the real problems and better solutions remain uncovered,
    because I cannot (yet) even ask the right questions
    

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22. Attention
    Annotation
    Basic building blocks of Domain Storytelling
    Actor Work Object
    Activity
    + +
    +
    

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23. Ticketing
    screen
    plan
    available
    seats
    Customer Cashier
    confirms
    reservation
    available
    seats
    reservation
    number
    recommends
    asks for
    screen
    plan
    reservation
    finds seats in
    confirm
    seats in
    generates
    tells
    1 2
    3
    4
    5
    6
    7
    

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24. Basic Building Blocks
    Human
    or Group
    Command
    or Activity
    Machine
    or Component
    Behavior
    or Decision
    Statement
    or Object
    Attention
    or Uncertainty
    Event
    or Exception
    Storystorming
    Question
    or Search
    Deliverable
    or Proposal
    

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25. Attention
    Annotation
    Basic building blocks with Storystorming
    Actor Work Object
    Activity
    + + + Context
    @martinschimak
    Human
    or Group
    Machine
    or Component
    Activity Object Behavior
    or Decision Attention
    or Uncertainty
    

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26. Storytelling. As simple as it really is!
    @martinschimak
    Object
    Actor Activity
    

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27. Storytelling. As simple as it really is!
    "A story consists of
    sentences. A sentence
    consists of three basic
    building blocks!"
    @martinschimak
    ticket
    reservation
    Customer asks for
    

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28. Storytelling. As simple as it really is!
    @martinschimak
    Object
    Subject Verb
    "A story consists of
    sentences. A sentence
    consists of three basic
    building blocks!"
    

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29. The sentence with a receiving actor
    @martinschimak
    Customer
    calls and
    asks for
    ticket
    reservation
    Cashier
    "The customer calls
    and asks the cashier
    for a ticket reservation."
    

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30. @martinschimak
    A
    B
    C
    Customer
    calls and
    asks for
    ticket
    reservation
    Cashier
    Ticketing
    System
    finds
    seats in
    screen plan
    Time
    Actors
    Story
    "The cashier finds the
    seats in the screen
    plan of the ticketing
    system."
    

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31. @martinschimak
    A
    B
    C
    Customer
    calls and
    asks for
    ticket
    reservation
    Cashier
    Ticketing
    System
    finds
    seats in
    screen plan
    Time
    Actors
    Story
    suggests
    available
    seats
    1 2 3
    "The cashier suggests
    the available seats to
    the customer."
    

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32. @martinschimak
    A
    B
    C
    Customer
    calls and
    asks for
    ticket
    reservation
    Cashier
    Ticketing
    System
    finds
    seats in
    screen plan
    Time
    Actors
    Story
    suggests
    available
    seats
    1 2 3
    Seats are
    available
    

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33. @martinschimak
    Customer
    calls and
    asks for
    ticket
    reservation
    Cashier
    Ticketing
    System
    finds
    seats in
    screen plan
    suggests
    available
    seats
    Seats are
    available
    confirms
    suggested
    seats
    reserves
    seats in
    screen plan
    generates
    reservation tells
    reservation
    number
    Customer
    likes seats
    

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34. @martinschimak
    Customer
    calls and
    asks for
    ticket
    reservation
    Cashier
    Ticketing
    System
    finds
    seats in
    screen plan
    suggests
    available
    seats
    Seats are
    available
    confirms
    suggested
    seats
    reserves
    seats in
    screen plan
    generates
    reservation tells
    reservation
    number
    Customer
    likes seats
    Tickets
    required
    Tickets
    reserved
    Could the
    seats be
    gone by
    now?
    

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35. Let your domain expert do it him/herself, e.g. on a table!
    Be helpful with the method! Then start to ask questions.
    EVENTSTORMiNG
    

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36. Let your domain expert do it him/herself, e.g. with
    Be helpful with the method! Then start to ask questions.
    EVENTSTORMiNG
    

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37. Pro Hint :-)
    Don't "model"!
    Let your expert
    tell a story!
    Pro Hint :-)
    Don't "model"!
    Let your expert
    tell a story!
    Human
    

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38. Time!
    We are a family of four (two parents, two
    teenagers) and have to take care of shopping
    on a regular basis. Everybody should help a bit
    from time to time! Therefore we use a mobile
    ToDo App with a shared shopping list. All
    family members can add shopping items to this
    list, such as e.g. "1 loaf of bread". Items may be
    marked to be urgently needed on a certain
    date. The shopping list will then inform all
    family members about such an urgently
    needed item. Whoever has time or comes by a
    suitable shop just marks any bought item as
    Done in the shopping list.
    Hands-on #1
    Storytelling
    Visualize the actor's activities
    sentence by sentence using
    activity verbs & objects
    Mobile
    To Do App
    Martin
    Object
    Activity
    Verb
    Object
    Activity
    Verb
    Assumption
    about
    behavior
    Kathi
    

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39. Time!
    Imagine we shopped a bit too much and need a
    ride: "Let me see, I could use one of these cars
    which are now parked everywhere in the city."
    Our car sharing app allows customers to find
    nearby cars. One can reserve a car for 15
    minutes. When we approach the driver's door
    with our mobile's NFC, the app asks to confirm
    the current rate per kilometer. After this, the
    car opens its doors, and we may start the ride.
    Finally, when a car is closed from the outside
    and using the mobile's NFC the ride is finished
    and our card is charged on a kilometer basis.
    Hands-on #2
    Storytelling
    Visualize the actor's activities
    sentence by sentence using
    activity verbs & objects
    Car
    Martin
    Object
    Activity
    Verb
    Object
    Activity
    Verb
    Assumption
    about
    behavior
    Car
    Sharing
    App
    

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40. Drafting a blockchain workflow for a steel industry startup
    Simple customer
    interaction scenario
    1
    Scenario with
    resellers involved
    2
    

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41. Some results from
    EventStorming
    Capturing two
    detail "stories"
    1
    2
    3
    Getting
    side-tracked :-)
    Considering a
    few deliverables
    4
    Discussing billing improvements for a telco provider
    

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42. Investigating a (largely paper-based) support process
    Here is the pain
    with mistakes made
    in support requests
    1
    Here is the correction
    pain resulting from it
    2
    

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43. Using a grid
    "Grids" allow you to easily
    insert, move and delete
    "sentences" (columns)
    and "actors" (rows)
    

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44. Using Events for variants
    Event
    or Exception
    

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45. Capture and tell variant!
    

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46. Telling Problem stories
    Attention
    or Uncertainty
    

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47. Mapping details to stories
    Deliverable
    or Proposal
    

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48. Storystorming
    

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49. Super Sticky Post-It
    Bangkok Collection
    • orange 'event' (2)
    • magenta 'attention' (2)
    • blue 'command' (2)
    Super Sticky Post-It
    Marrakesh Collection
    • dark green
    'statement' (2)
    • blue 'command' (1)
    • lilac 'behavior' (1)
    • dark yellow 'human'
    (1)
    (plus one other color)
    Super Sticky Post-It
    Miami Collection
    • blue 'command' (2)
    • pink 'machine' (1)
    • light green
    'question' (2)
    (plus one other color)
    Super Sticky Post-It
    Standard Collection
    • light yellow
    deliverable' (6)
    Storystorming
    Yourself
    

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50. Thank you!
    Full 14h Remote DDD with Storystorming Training?
    Oct 12th-14th 2020 -> https://techtalk.at/trainings/storystorming
    In-house/Remote Trainings or Workshops -> https://plexiti.com
    

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