Understanding business rules and processes in a complex enterprise environment should be high on a priority list for a development team, as a basic precondition to be able to create solutions that provide value to the users. In order to understand the business one must learn the language in which the business operates, i.e. a domain language.

This talk will present Domain Storytelling as a lightweight technique that helps teams learn a domain language. In a close collaboration with domain experts the language is visualized using pictographic notation while highlighting the users’ most urgent needs. Using Domain Storytelling is an engaging exercise on the domain experts’ terms, enabling teams to acquire knowledge about the business in an efficient way. Domain Storytelling can as well provide strong hints to the development team about subdomains and contexts that the software project could use as a basis for modularization.

The talk will be based on a real-world use-case from a healthcare domain.

Video
CukenFest, London 2019: https://youtu.be/a6Ek_XWOIm0

Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/mufrid/domain-storytelling-how-to-learn-a-domain-language