Ryan Shriver

Designing Bounded Contexts

Wednesday, 1:30 PM EST

Strategic Domain-Driven Design (DDD) is an architecture approach that aligns systems, data, and teams around the true structure of the business. Getting started with identifying bounded contexts—the core building blocks of Strategic DDD—has long been a challenging mix of art and science.

In this hands-on session, you’ll learn a practical, repeatable method for introducing Strategic DDD starting with a single business process. Using collaborative event storming, you’ll visualize the flow of the conference registration journey, identify natural bounded contexts, and map the messages that flow between them.

You’ll see how starting with this approach is a natural input to event-driven architectures and CQRS patterns while also creating a common language between Business and IT to inform strategic decisions.

Discover your Software Architecture in a Day with the C4 Model

Thursday, 9:00 AM EST

When modernizing architecture, quickly discovering the current users, systems and their dependencies is a critical starting point. Unfortunately, accurate documentation rarely exists. When it does, it’s confusing and at the wrong level. More often than not, accurate architecture details are locked in people’s heads and not written down anywhere. So, how might we create an accurate view of the current software architecture quickly while also having fun with our team?

This session teaches you how to facilitate a pair of workshops to uncover and visually document any collection of software systems in fun and engaging ways. Based on the Miro Discover Systems with the C4 Model template, you will learn how to help your teams translate isolated tribal knowledge into a collective view of the architecture that anyone can understand. Learn the tips and tricks for taking something boring - like creating system documentation - and turning it into a fun activity where everyone can participate and learn!