Domain Storytelling

As explained in Collaborative Software Design: How to facilitate domain modeling decisions

Domain Storytelling is a collaborative modeling technique that captures domain knowledge through illustrated stories of activities and interactions.

Domain Storytelling is a collaborative modeling technique for capturing domain knowledge as illustrated stories of activities, participants, and interactions. Pictograms connected by arrows show who works with whom, while numbers show the order of events. The resulting picture lets a group validate its conversation immediately and build shared understanding. section 2.3.4

BigScreen ticket reservation

A facilitator can model the BigScreen ticket reservation scenario as a conversation unfolds, making cooperation between people, groups, software systems, and a legacy system visible. The group can then decide which interactions belong in the story and compare the scenario with or without the legacy system. section 2.3.4

Use the technique effectively by:

• Agreeing on the meaning of each icon before the workshop and recording those meanings in a legend. section 2.3.4
• Drawing on a whiteboard or using a digital tool such as Egon.io for online sessions and rapid sharing. section 2.3.4
• Treating the diagram as a prompt for discussion rather than assuming any tool captures the whole story perfectly. section 2.3.4

Figure 2.21 BigScreen’s Domain Storytelling with legacy system

Inspect the BigScreen ticket-reservation model with its legacy system to see how participants, interactions, and event order are visualized. section 2.3.4

How Collaborative Software Design: How to facilitate domain modeling decisions covers it

How deep it goes

Explains notation, facilitation, flexibility, and validation, but stops short of prescribing a complete modeling process.

Examples

Uses BigScreen’s ticket-reservation scenario, pictograms, numbered arrows, and views with or without legacy systems.

What you can do after

Evaluate conversations and cooperation by drawing, validating, and refining shared visual stories.

How it connects

Connects collaborative modeling with business processes, software systems, and EventStorming.

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Related concepts

• software design EventStormingcontrasts with · Software design EventStorming is a collaborative modeling technique that explores domain events and processes to inform software structure and behavior.
• scenariouses · A scenario is a concrete description of a situation or conditions, often including actions and expected or possible outcomes, for analysis or evaluation.
• workflowuses · A workflow is an organized sequence of coordinated activities, tasks, or decisions through which work progresses toward an outcome.

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