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EventStorming: Make a ceremony of throwing things away

EventStorming: Make a ceremony of throwing things away

by Organisers @virtualddd | Dec 3, 2025

When people are new to EventStorming, their initial approach is often to be reluctant to write things that aren't 100% correct. By making an example of the first sticky you throw away as a facilitator, you allow everyone to try something, be wrong, and improve...
EventStorming: Make a ceremony of throwing things away

EventStorming: One (co-)facilitator for every 15 participants

by Organisers @virtualddd | Dec 3, 2025

For a Big Picture EventStorming, we can have around 20-30+ people per wall – but even an experienced facilitator will have a hard time noticing subtleties, body language and tonal nuances when more than 2-3 conversations are going on at the same time. Limit the...
EventStorming: Make a ceremony of throwing things away

EventStorming: Split and merge during converging discussions

by Organisers @virtualddd | Dec 3, 2025

When there are competing ideas during an eventstorming, we want to visualise both ideas. Split both discussion, discuss and then merge. Examples When we are in the converging phase of eventstorming, we already moved a lot of ideas. Sometimes new ideas pop up. When we...
EventStorming: Make a ceremony of throwing things away

EventStorming: Switch to Example Mapping when discussing examples of business rules

by Organisers @virtualddd | Dec 3, 2025

During Process or Design level EventStorming we can get stuck in talking about invisible things for business constraint/rule like the purple or yellow sticky. It happens that we get into the use cases or examples discussion, it is here were we switch to Example...
EventStorming: Make a ceremony of throwing things away

EventStorming: Start enforcing the timeline when everyone added their domain events

by Organisers @virtualddd | Dec 3, 2025

During the start of an EventStorming we ask everyone in the group to write down their domain events they can think of. Then we ask them to stick these to the brownpaper in an ordered timeline. The timeline is what they have in their mind. Once everyone added their...
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