Domain-Driven Design (DDD) Workshop

Build your awareness of the basic concepts and value of Domain-Driven Design (DDD) in one day through group exercises, paired code walkthroughs, lecture and games.

Understand what DDD is and when and why it is valuable to software intensive organizations. Overview the basic principles and processes needed develop the useful sort of models, tie them into implementation and business analysis, and place them within a viable, realistic strategy.

Topics Introduced

Morning

• What is DDD and how is modeling useful?
• Developing a shared modeling language to enable effective collaboration
• Using reference scenarios to guide modeling
• What makes a model useful to a software project?
• Architectural options for implementing DDD
• Aggregate design - applying effective aggregate design for both relational and NoSQL solutions
• Domain events - decoupling, scaling and modeling chronology in distributed systems

Afternoon

• Prioritizing sophisticated design for where it will have the greatest impact
• Clarifying a shared vision
• Mapping the terrain of your systems to enable effective modeling and design
• Integrating agile with rigorous design
• Succeeding with DDD and avoiding common adoption pitfalls