Advanced Domain-Driven Design

Three day workshop
Mathias Verraes

Advanced Domain-Driven Design

No dates are scheduled for this workshop. Let us know if you think we should organize it near you, or if you'd like to book it on premise in your organisation.


Software design can have a very slow feedback loop: by the time you find out if the architectural and design decisions you made were the right ones, it may be too late for drastic changes. As developers, we tend to phrase all problems as technical problems, which can be sufficiently challenging in their own right. We tend to lose sight of the underlying business concerns.

Domain–Driven Design is total approach to building software for complex domains. It’s a way of thinking that helps you decide how to tackle complexity, and where to focus your efforts. By putting the business at the heart of our software, and keeping our domain model closely tied to our understanding of the business, we can create value at a much deeper level.

This is what you learn

In this workshop, we’ll explore this central premise of Domain–Driven Design. We’ll take a practical approach: participants will be working on real–world problems. There will be no easy answers. Instead, you’ll learn how to ask the right questions, and how to evaluate different models.

  • Discovering the domain and the Ubiquitous Language
  • Event Storming, conversations with Domain Experts
  • Creating a model to share insights between both technical and non–technical shareholders
  • Applying Systems Thinking and problem–solving techniques
  • Visualizing strategic design using Bounded Contexts and Context Mapping
  • Integrating with legacy systems
  • CQRS, Event Sourcing, temporal modelling
  • Modelling exercises
  • Distilling Design Heuristics
  • …

By keeping the group small, everyone’s questions can properly be addressed.

“I spent three days immersed in the Domain–Driven Design world with Mathias. It was a great experience where I learned a lot about DDD. Mathias created an environment where we could interact all together experimenting with DDD. Furthermore Mathias adapted the workshop content dynamically to our needs and our concerns. It is a recommended experience!”
— Jordi Llonch, Technical Lead, Akamon Entertainment (Spain)

“Event Storming is truly valuable, also as an exercise. I found the patterns to separate domains and their relations very interesting. (…) I’ve discovered that DDD has many patterns and strategies that we seem to have lost. It is essential knowledge for every developer, from junior to architect. For more experienced developers (and business architects), the Strategic Domain–Driven Design workshop gives theory and experience to better deal with (business) domains, relations, Bounded Contexts, and how to map systems. Must attend!” (translated from Dutch)
— Marc Van Andel, Integration Specialist / Java Architect, Kadaster (Netherlands)

Participant Requirements

  • You are a Software Developer with some years of experience in working with complex domains. You’re familiar with object–oriented programming.
  • It’s recommended to read “Domain–Driven Design” (Evans, 2004), but not essential.
  • Laptops or other devices are not required, but useful for taking notes.
  • The course is programming language agnostic.

“Mathias made Domain–Driven Design very real and practical. He managed to find a good balance between practical workshop, theory, and sharing experiences. This workshop really gave me the keys to use DDD in our projects and showed me new perspectives like Event Sourcing. It is definitely a must have complement to the usual books by Eric Evans and Vaughn Vernon. I would definitely recommend this workshop to any developer or architect who is keen to learn a different way to model software.”
– Sébastien Abras, Senior Software Architect, EVS Broadcast (Belgium)

Mathias Verraes

About Mathias Verraes

Mathias Verraes is the founder of Aardling, a software modelling & design consultancy, with a penchant for complex environments. Mathias’ focus is on design strategy and messaging-centric domain modelling. He has worked with clients in Finance, Government, Supply Chain, Mobility, Energy, E-Commerce, and more. He blogs about software design at verraes.net. Occasionally, he teaches public courses on Domain-Driven Design & messaging. Mathias is also the founder of the DDD Europe conference. Mathias has a Masters in Music from the Royal Conservatory of Ghent, and is an autodidact on software. When he’s at home in Kortrijk, Belgium, he helps his two sons build crazy Lego contraptions.

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No dates are scheduled for this workshop. Let us know if you think we should organize it near you, or if you'd like to book it on premise in your organisation.


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