DDD Overview for Business

ONE DAY COURSE for any project leaders, product managers, business analysts and domain experts.

Build your awareness of the basic concepts and value of Domain-Driven Design (DDD) from a business perspective in one day.

  • Understand whaEric leading classt DDD is and when and why it is valuable to software intensive organizations.
  • Overview the basic principles and processes needed develop the useful models, tie them into implementation and business analysis, and place them within a viable, realistic strategy.
  • Explore the role of business people in a DDD project, and how they work closely with the development team.

Recommended Background

Some experience with projects developing complex software systems. Familiarity with iterative development processes.

Topics Introduced

  • What is DDD?
  • What makes a model useful to a software project?
  • Cultivation of a model-based language to connect domain experts, developers, and the code itself
  • Collaboration between technical and business people in the modeling process
  • Distilling the Core Domain: Focusing fine modeling and design into those subdomains where the organization distinguishes itself
  • Clarifying a shared vision
  • Context Mapping: A pragmatic approach to dealing with the diversity of models and processes on real large projects with multi-team/multi-subsystem development.
  • Combining the Core Domain and Context Map to illuminate Strategic Design options for a project.

Of course we also have the DDD Immersion for the hands-on members of your software development teams, and Strategic Design for architects, management and other strategic leaders.