Event Storming

The smartest approach to collaboration
beyond silo boundaries

What can we do to break silos?

There are bunch of ways

• Team swap/rotation - facilitates knowledge transfer, reduce the bus factor
• Impact Mapping - shared goals, ways to solve a problem
• Story Mapping - Prioritization
• Event Storming - Discover complexity and blind spots

People won’t self organize around

a system they don’t understand

Collecting nouncs will lead you nowhere

Nouns are in fact the portion of the enterprise knowledge which is more prone to ambiguity.

Things that happens in the system: domain events

Time

fuzzy by design

Emergence: add more details as conversation goes