Collaborative discovery and modeling
Collaborative discovery and modeling is a group technique in which stakeholders jointly create and refine representations to establish shared understanding of a domain or system.
Collaborative Software Design: How to facilitate domain modeling decisions
A collaborative modeling session is a facilitated activity in which participants jointly create or discuss models to reach shared understanding.
- How it is used
- Creates shared understanding of business problems and design decisions among stakeholders, decision-makers, and software teams.
- How deep it goes
- Explains definition, visual modeling rationale, tool selection, session stages, social dynamics, and decision follow-up without prescribing a fixed process.
- Examples
- Uses BigScreen’s modernization conflict, EventStorming for movie extensions, and a Business Model Canvas to make assumptions and domain knowledge visible.
- What you can do after
- Apply it to convene relevant participants, visualize assumptions and alternatives, and formalize supported design decisions.
Architecture Modernization: Socio-technical alignment of software, strategy, and structure
Collaborative modeling is a technique in which multiple stakeholders jointly create and refine a representation of a domain or system.
- How it is used
- Uses cross-team gatherings to reveal system-wide themes, support modernization decisions, and align teams around domains.
- How deep it goes
- Moves from facilitated group exploration to tactical modeling and subdomain boundaries, while avoiding a fixed recipe for domain discovery.
- Examples
- Includes developer-experience workshops, periodic EventStorming, and CloudSuite’s bottom-up discovery and ordering subdomains.
- What you can do after
- Apply it via EventStorming and workshops to surface themes, improve designs, reprioritize work, and test domain boundaries.
Related concepts
- visualizationkind of · Visualization is the representation of data, information, or concepts in visual form to support inspection, interpretation, analysis, or communication.
- shared understandingproduces · Shared understanding is a common interpretation among people of relevant information, context, assumptions, expectations, goals, or decisions.
- software design EventStormingincludes · Software design EventStorming is a collaborative modeling technique that explores domain events and processes to inform software structure and behavior.
- business model canvasuses · The Business Model Canvas is a visual strategic-management framework for describing and analyzing the key elements of a business model.
- buy-inproduces · Buy-in is the acceptance and active support of a proposal, decision, change, or initiative by people whose cooperation or participation it requires.
- definition of successmeasured by · A definition of success is a set of session-specific guidelines for assessing whether an intended outcome has been reached.
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