✅ Why Attend This Training?
Facilitating Event Storming is more than running a workshop – it’s about guiding a group through discovery, analysis, and design in a way that uncovers risks, builds alignment, and accelerates decision-making.
In this 2-day intensive workshop, you will learn how to design and lead Big Picture and Process Level Event Storming sessions, with a glimpse into Design Level. You’ll explore techniques for managing group dynamics, extracting insights from domain experts, and connecting workshop outcomes to strategic and tactical Domain-Driven Design (DDD).
By the end, you’ll be ready to act as a confident facilitator who helps both business and technical stakeholders see the whole system, identify contexts, and shape decisions together.

🧠 Learning Objectives
• Master the roles, responsibilities, and techniques of an Event Storming facilitator
• Learn how to set up, run, and guide Big Picture and Process Level Event Storming sessions
• Practice methods for collaborating with domain experts and capturing ubiquitous language
• Apply DDD concepts such as Bounded Contexts and Context Mapping in facilitation
• Discover how to recognize hot spots, risks, and integration challenges during workshops
• Learn facilitation strategies to manage group dynamics, conflicts, and focus

🚀 Key Benefits
• Hands-on training in facilitating, not just participating in Event Storming
• Practical tools for connecting business analysis with architecture decisions
• Techniques to keep groups engaged, productive, and aligned
• Ability to transform chaos into structured outcomes: contexts, aggregates, policies, test scenarios
• Confidence to lead workshops that deliver concrete design inputs, not endless sticky notes

👥 Who Should Attend?
• Software architects and lead developers facilitating modeling sessions
• Business and system analysts responsible for bridging business and IT
• Product owners and team leaders seeking stronger alignment tools
• Anyone tasked with guiding workshops that span business, design, and architecture

🧰 Prerequisites
• Familiarity with software design process or business analysis
• Openness to interactive, group-based facilitation techniques

🔑 Practicalities:
• Level: Intermediate
• Duration: 2 days (16h)

📚 Agenda – What You’ll Learn and Practice

1. 🧱 Introduction to Event Storming
• What is a domain event and why it matters
• Roles in a session: business experts, modelers, facilitator
• The facilitator’s mindset: divergent → emergent → convergent exploration
🎯 Learn to prepare and set the stage for discovery across business and tech.

2. 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Facilitating Group Work
• How to prepare the room (physical or virtual)
• Techniques for engaging diverse stakeholders
• Handling conflicts, keeping focus, and guiding energy
🎯 Develop soft skills to manage group dynamics and keep sessions productive.

3. 🗺️ Big Picture Event Storming in Practice
• Discovering domain events and structuring the timeline
• Identifying actors, dependencies, and risks
• Finding hotspots and potential bottlenecks
• Introducing Bounded Contexts and strategic integration
🎯 Turn chaotic discussions into a visual map of business processes and contexts.

4. 🧩 From Events to Strategic DDD
• Applying ubiquitous language during sessions
• Creating context maps from Event Storming outcomes
🎯 Bridge the gap between business exploration and architecture vision.

5. 🔄 Process Level Event Storming
• Narrowing down from Big Picture to focused processes
• Mapping commands, policies, read models, and external systems
🎯 Learn to guide deeper analysis of specific business workflows.

6. 🧮 Elements of Design Level
• Aggregates and consistency boundaries
• Typical pitfalls and anti-patterns in modeling
🎯 Understand when and how to introduce design-level insights without overwhelming participants.

7. 🧪 Using Artefacts Beyond the Workshop
• Turning workshop results into architectural decisions
• Defining teams and responsibilities
• Linking outcomes to testing: acceptance criteria, scenario-based tests
🎯 Deliver results that teams can implement, not just document.

8. ⚡ Common Pitfalls and Good Practices
• Anti-patterns in facilitation and modeling
• When to stop and what not to over-engineer
• Building your facilitator toolkit
🎯 Leave with confidence and a playbook for future workshops.