Martin Schimak

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Storystorming

In this hands-on workshop we use Storystorming to tell each other customer and user stories for a multi-faceted business idea, visually record these stories, and condense them into an information-rich backbone for a user story map. We will enrich our maps with details and develop them into a minimum viable product.

Storystorming is a young and lightweight mash-up of ideas coming from Event Storming, Domain Storytelling, User Story Mapping and Impact Mapping. Together with my clients I use it to gain strategic overviews of project and business ideas, as well as to explore and understand customer and user journeys, work procedures and whole business processes. With its simple configurations of sticky notes Storystorming leverages the fundamental structures of language and enables domain experts to tell their stories themselves, in the most natural way, and without requiring them to learn anything more but a few different colors. (see https://medium.com/plexiti/story-storming-191756f57387).

All messages are equal

For me, a key to a deeper understanding of messaging between large and small software components and a key to the successful design of message-oriented systems lies in understanding the grammatical structures of human languages and related human interaction patterns.

Therefore, in this talk I will take a very close look at the four grammatical types of sentences in the English language, namely "command", "question", "statement" and "exclamation". From this human perspective, I'm going to examine another type of messages, "event" notifications, which are so important to software systems, but have been hesitantly accepted by software people. After all, this type of message doesn't *explicitly* appear in the natural language that we use between people.

Based on a precise understanding of the semantics of these five message types, which can be derived from the material and linguistic reality, I would like to clarify why and how the definition of certain message types affects the responsibilities, "promises" and the coupling between communicating actors. As a result, I will show how our human tendency to perceive machines as "workers" that mainly execute commands limits our ability to design autonomous and maintainable software components around business capabilities.

Just like humans, intelligent components need all five types of messages to communicate and collaborate in a meaningful way.

Past and future events

Workflow Analytica Storystorming: Erzähl mir von Deiner Arbeit!	6 May - 7 May 2021 Berlin, Germany
Domain-Driven Design Vienna Hands-On Storystorming with Miro	25 Sep 2020 Vienna, Austria
Software Architecture Summit 2020 Mit Storystorming Geschäfts- und Produktideen gestalten	8 Mar - 10 Mar 2020 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
DDD Paris Storystorming - Hands On and Background Talk	5 Mar 2020 Paris, Île-de-France, France
Modellierung 2020 Mit Storystorming visuelle Geschichten erzählen	19 Feb - 21 Feb 2020 Vienna, Austria
DDD Vienna My DDD 101. And: Speed Dating with Collaborative Modeling!	29 Nov 2019 Vienna, Austria
DDD Munich Storystorming - Hands On and Background Talk	4 Nov 2019 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
W-JAX 2019 Storystorming	4 Nov - 8 Nov 2019 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
P3X 2019 Storystorming	31 Oct - 1 Nov 2019 London, England, United Kingdom
DDD London Storystorming - Hands On and Q&A	30 Oct 2019 London, England, United Kingdom
DDD Wroclaw Storystorming - Hands On and Background Talk	30 Sep 2019 Wrocław, Lower Silesia, Poland
Agile Tour 2019 Storystorming	20 Sep 2019 Vienna, Austria
DDD Berlin Storystorming - Hands On and Background Talk	11 Sep 2019 Berlin, Germany
DDD Hamburg Storystorming - Hands On and Background Talk	3 Sep 2019 Hamburg, Germany
DDD Cologne Storystorming - Debut Performance	2 Sep 2019 Köln, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Camunda Vienna Storystorming - Sneak Preview	19 Jun 2019 Vienna, Austria
µCon 2019 On to Choreography 2.0!	29 May - 31 May 2019 London, England, United Kingdom
DDD Vienna Building Better Domain Models with User Story Mapping!	5 Apr 2019 Vienna, Austria
W-JAX 2018 Microservices und End-to-end-Geschäftsprozesse.	5 Nov - 9 Nov 2018 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
µCon 2018 Stop Bashing Orchestration! And Long Live Choreography!	5 Nov - 6 Nov 2018 London, England, United Kingdom
Microservices Munich Know the flow! Events, commands and long-running services.	4 Oct 2018 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
ExploreDDD 2018 Know the Flow! Events, Commands and Long-Running Services.	13 Sep - 14 Sep 2018 Denver, Colorado, United States
Microservices Vienna The awesome Speakers-Corner-Evening!	23 Aug 2018 Vienna, Austria
EventStorming Summit 2018 EventStorming, EventStorming, EventStorming, ... and lots of fun!	10 Jul - 12 Jul 2018 Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
DDD Vienna EventStorming, BDD and sick teachers!	22 Jun 2018 Vienna, Austria
Camunda Vienna Domain-Driven Design. Relating three D’s to Process Modeling!	6 Jun 2018 Vienna, Austria
CraftConf 2018 Break your event chains! Complex event flows in distributed systems	9 May - 11 May 2018 Budapest, Hungary
Microservices Budapest Policies, sagas and processes. Long live the violet sticky!	8 May 2018 Budapest, Hungary
DDD eXchange 2018 Know the Flow! Events, Commands and Long-Running Services.	26 Apr - 27 Apr 2018 London, England, United Kingdom
JAX 2018 Break Your Event Chains!	22 Apr - 26 Apr 2018 Mainz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
DDD Cologne Know the Flow! Events, Commands and Long-Running Services.	19 Mar 2018 Köln, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
DDD Belgium Events, Flows and Long Running Services	12 Nov 2017 Gent, Flanders, Belgium
µCon 2017 Break your Event Chains!	6 Nov - 7 Nov 2017 London, England, United Kingdom
W-JAX 2017 Break Your Event Chains!	5 Nov - 9 Nov 2017 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
KanDDDinsky 2017 Let your domain events flow	20 Oct - 21 Oct 2017 Berlin, Germany
O'Reilly Software Architecture 2017 Complex event flows in distributed systems	18 Oct - 20 Oct 2017 London, England, United Kingdom
ExploreDDD 2017 Tackling Complex Event Flows	20 Sep - 21 Sep 2017 Denver, Colorado, United States
DDD Berlin Tackling Complex Event Flows	5 Sep 2017 Berlin, Germany
Camunda Vienna Microservices & Workflow	4 Apr 2017 Vienna, Austria

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