Storystorming DDD Wroclaw

Ten colors, six tools, one goal: Storystorming is a very lightweight approach for understanding your organisation's problems, designing suitable solutions and transparently planning their implementation. Storystorming seamlessly integrates impact mapping, event storming, domain storytelling, user story mapping, collaboration modelling and example mapping into one cohesive approach using ten colors of sticky notes. Using these six tools, rooted in agility, domain-driven design (DDD) and behavior driven development (BDD), Storystorming fosters an intensive collaboration between business and technology experts. Now they can connect the dots and discover what your organisation needs to remain successful.

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1. Storystorming
   Wroclaw, Sep 30th 2019
   with @martinschimak
   

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2. Storystorming
   Hands On
   

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3. Event
   Storming
   Domain
   Storytelling
   Story
   Mapping
   Storystorming
   Impact
   Mapping
   Process
   Modelling
   Example
   Mapping
   

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4. Understand
   the bigger picture
   of your domain
   Storystorming goes
   Event Storming
   

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5. Storystorming goes
   Impact
   Mapping
   Define goals,
   strategic and
   tactical options
   Event
   Storming
   

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6. Easily explore specific
   domain scenarios
   Impact
   Mapping
   Storystorming goes
   Domain
   Storytelling
   Event
   Storming
   

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7. Read the blogpost?
   https://medium.com/plexiti
   Storystorming goes
   Domain Storytelling
   Explore your domain—by literally watching your language
   @martinschimak
   

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8. 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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9. Storystorming goes
   Domain Storytelling
   

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10. Attention
    Annotation
    Basic building blocks of Domain Storytelling
    Actor Work Object
    Activity
    + + + Context
    @martinschimak
    

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

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12. asks for
    Customer reservation
    @martinschimak
    A very first sentence
    Subject
    Verb
    Object
    ✓
    ✓
    ✓
    ✓
    

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13. Cashier reservation
    asks for
    Customer
    @martinschimak
    A very first sentence
    Subject
    Verb
    Object
    ✓
    ✓
    ✓
    ✓
    

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14. Cashier reservation
    asks for
    Customer
    @martinschimak
    A very first sentence using a bit less space
    Subject
    Verb
    Object
    ✓
    ✓
    ✓
    ✓
    

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15. finds
    seats in
    screen plan
    Seats are
    available
    Ticketing
    1 2
    A
    B
    C
    Cashier reservation
    asks for
    Customer
    @martinschimak
    Subject
    Verb
    Object
    Partner Subject
    2nd Sentence
    1st Subject's Lane
    Assumed Behavior
    ✓
    ✓
    ✓
    ✓
    ✓
    ✓
    2
    A
    ✓
    "Tell and record story
    from left to right,
    sentence by sentence.
    Refactor and improve!"
    

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16. recom-
    mends
    available
    seats
    confirms
    offered
    seats
    confirms
    seats generates
    reservation tells
    reservation
    number
    Customer
    likes seats
    Seats are
    available
    finds
    seats in
    screen plan
    Ticketing
    Cashier reservation
    asks for
    Customer
    Seats are
    available
    Current
    system does
    not block
    seats
    

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17. recom-
    mends
    seats 14 and
    15, sector A2 confirms
    seats 14 and
    15, sector A2
    confirms
    seats 14 and
    15, sector A2 generates
    reservation
    #THQB for
    seats 14 and
    15, sector A2
    tells
    reservation
    number
    #THQB
    Customer
    likes seats
    Seats are
    available
    finds
    seats 14 and
    15, sector A2
    in screen plan
    Ticketing
    Stadium
    cashier
    Andrew
    reservation of
    two football
    tickets for
    sector A2
    calls by
    phone and
    asks for
    Football
    fan
    Samantha
    Seats are
    available
    Current
    system does
    not block
    seats
    

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18. A real life case from a bird's eye view
    @martinschimak
    

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19. Hands
    On!
    Verb
    Object
    Machine
    2
    Human
    Object
    Verb
    Human
    Behavior
    assumed
    Attention
    required
    1
    @martinschimak
    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.
    Please model a VERY SPECIFIC KEY EXAMPLE
    SCENARIO by means of Storystorming!
    1
    2
    

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20. adds
    1 glass of
    Nutella
    Shopping List
    Fabia
    10 cans
    of corn
    adds
    Kathi
    Early
    Friday
    morning
    marks
    Nutella as
    due on
    Friday
    Martin
    2 liters
    of milk
    adds
    reminds
    to buy
    1 glass of
    Nutella
    1 glass of
    Nutella
    1 glass of
    Nutella
    buys
    1 glass of
    Nutella
    2 l milk
    buys
    10 cans of
    corn are
    too heavy
    Fabia
    can't live
    without
    One possible scenario …
    

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21. My take on some strengths of the approach
    - Record natural language (even without immediate full understanding)
    - Improve upon single terms and prepare your ubiquitous language (DDD)
    - Work close to some individual's human perspective, perfect for interviews
    - Focus on just one single example sequence of all possible activities
    - Clarify problems and exceptions - by adding assumptions or more stories
    - Discuss alternatives – just by taking a picture and rearranging stickies
    

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22. Strengths and Weaknesses? :-)
    

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23. Storystorming
    Background
    

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24. EventStorming is an inspiring part of Storystorming
    

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25. … thanks to the creative energy of my customers and countless
    meetups like the awesome EventStorming Summit in Bologna!
    Storystorming slowly developed here ... :-)
    

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

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29. Alberto Brandolini's
    Understand the bigger picture of your domain!
    

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30. Easily explore specific domain scenarios!
    Stefan Hofer's and
    Henning Schwentner's
    

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31. Plan deliverables and priorities with overview!
    © https://mozaicworks.com/blog/3-uses-story-maps-build-better-product/
    Jeff Patton's
    

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35. Storystorming
    likes simple sticky notes
    

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36. Storystorming's
    10 basic building blocks
    Behavior
    (chosen)
    "Command"
    (given) !
    "Exclamation"
    (made) !
    "Question"
    (asked) ?
    "Statement"
    (made) .
    Machine
    Human
    
    (happened)
    Deliverable
    (considered)
    Attention
    (required)
    

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37. Easily explore specific
    domain scenarios
    Impact
    Mapping
    Storystorming goes
    Domain
    Storytelling
    Event
    Storming
    

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40. Plan deliverables
    and priorities
    with overview
    Impact
    Mapping
    Storystorming goes
    Story
    Mapping
    Domain
    Storytelling
    Event
    Storming
    

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41. Storystorming goes
    Process
    Modelling
    Story
    Mapping
    Design fine-grained
    workflows for participants
    Impact
    Mapping
    Domain
    Storytelling
    Event
    Storming
    

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42. Storystorming goes
    Example
    Mapping
    Specify rules and
    detailed software
    behavior
    Story
    Mapping
    Impact
    Mapping
    Domain
    Storytelling
    Event
    Storming
    Process
    Modelling
    

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43. Event
    Storming
    Story
    Mapping
    Storystorming
    Impact
    Mapping
    Example
    Mapping
    Domain
    Storytelling
    Process
    Modelling
    

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44. Storystorming
    Understand
    the bigger picture
    of your domain
    Easily explore specific
    domain scenarios
    Plan deliverables
    and priorities with
    overview
    Design fine-grained
    workflows for participants
    Specify rules and
    detailed software
    behavior
    Define goals,
    strategic and
    tactical options
    

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45. 4x Super Sticky Post-It
    Bangkok Collection
    • orange 'event' (2)
    • magenta 'attention' (2)
    • blue 'command' (2)
    3x Super Sticky Post-It
    Marrakesh Collection
    • dark green
    'statement' (2)
    • red 'machine' (1)
    • blue 'command' (1)
    • lilac 'behavior' (1)
    • dark yellow 'human' (1)
    2x Super Sticky Post-It
    Miami Collection
    • blue 'command' (2)
    • light green
    'question' (2)
    • light pink
    'exclamation' (1)
    plus one other color
    3x Super Sticky Post-It
    Standard Collection
    • light yellow
    deliverable' (6)
    Storystorming Yourself
    @martinschimak
    

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46. Storystorming
    Learn six collaborative modelling tools
    in two days, using ten sticky colors
    working through one challenge!
    Open workshop in Vienna? Visit https://techtalk.at/trainings/storystorming
    And in-house workshops? Everywhere! Contact martin.schimak@plexiti.com
    

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47. Open workshop in Vienna? Visit https://techtalk.at/trainings/storystorming
    And in-house workshops? Everywhere! Contact martin.schimak@plexiti.com
    Storystorming
    Learn six collaborative modelling tools
    in two days, using ten sticky colors
    working through one challenge!
    

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