Stefan Hofer - Domain Storytelling: A Collaborative, Visual, and Agile Way to Build Domain-Driven Software (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Vernon))

This book provides a wonderful introduction to an approachable, structured, narrative- based technique for collaborative domain modeling. And for those wanting to go deeper, Stefan and Henning will help you not only to avoid common facilitation pitfalls, but also to integrate the domain knowledge into your everyday development work.

Paul Rayner, author of The EventStorming Handbook

This book is destined to be the definitive resource on Domain Storytelling for many years.

Mike Cohn, co-founder of the Agile Alliance

Until now, when people talk about visualization, they usually mean words in boxes on a whiteboard. Representing the users needs and journeys has been somewhat awkward, with either long form descriptions or series of wireframes. What Stefan and Henning have achieved is a method that shows whats really happening. A Domain Storytelling model shows whos doing what with whom, in what order, and for what purpose, in a clear, truly visual way. Its easy enough to learn how to build these models, but more importantly, an uninitiated reader can understand and critique the models at first sight. That makes Domain Storytelling a powerful communication tool that I believe will become widely used in software product companies and beyond.

Mathias Verraes, curator of Domain-Driven Design Europe

This is a great addition to any Domain-Driven Design practitioners bookshelf.

Julie Lerman, software coach, The Data Farm

All organizations are being disrupted through the rapid advance of change, and my job is to teach people how to apply the Kanban method in their business life. In that context we use Domain Storytelling while exploring and extracting value streams in organizations in a very successful way. With their book, Stefan Hofer and Henning Schwentner explain how collaboration can and does lead the way to transforming our ways of working.

Altu Bilgin Altinta, business agility engineer, accredited Kanban trainer & coach, author of Kanban Metodu ile eviklik, co-organizer of FlowConf

From a story to working softwarethis book helps you to get to the essence of what to build. Highly recommended!

Oliver Drotbohm

This book is a rare achievement, combining a pragmatic guide to a powerful domain modeling technique and a wealth of distilled insights from key aspects of Domain-Driven Design, without being a tome. The authors present a convincing case that conversational stories told and visualized in a natural language pave the fastest path to quality business software. Be prepared for fingers itching to start your own Domain Storytelling while reading the well-curated case studies.

Xin Yao, chief software architect at Danske Bank

Practicing Domain Storytelling is a journey towards deep and true understanding of the problem domain you are working on. While discovering subtle inner workings of the business, be prepared for some unexpected solutions to reveal themselves along the way. This book will put you in a position to embark on that journey on your own and will guide you along the way.

Mufrid Krilic, DDD and Domain Storytelling practitioner

Domain Storytelling served as a key bridge between our business, products, and technology stacks, and between our past to our future. Using the practice, everyone who participatedfrom P&L and Operations team leaders to individual engineers and product leadslevelled-up their understanding of where we intended (and needed) to take the business, aligned with each other, and understood how cross-functional product and engineering teams would function within the relevant bounded contexts that collectively represented our future business model. And many (even most!) found it a fun and liberating process.

Domain Storytelling is a practical methodology rooted in the language and context of customers and business, so accessible and valuable to cross-functions (not just engineering) within your business. I recommend the book and, more importantly, the methodology!

Jim Banister, chief product officer, Raisin DS GmbH

As a product manager I really love visualization. Domain Storytelling was one of the techniques I met at the very beginning of my Domain-Driven Design journey (in 2017). I was impressed, amazed, and at the same time surprised in a very positive way that this is exactly what is needed by someone who facilitates the communication between development teams and business. It is very easy to learn and focuses on the pictographic language that makes it possible for literally everyone to understand and take advantage of. I would recommend using it immediately; dont think too much, just start and go with the flow! Believe me it will be worth it. :)

Zsfia Herendi, product manager

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Domain Storytelling

Domain Storytelling

A Collaborative, Visual, and Agile Way to Build Domain-Driven Software

Stefan Hofer
Henning Schwentner

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