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Remote EventStorming session

As explained in Architecture Modernization: Socio-technical alignment of software, strategy, and structure

A remote EventStorming session is an EventStorming workshop conducted through online communication and collaboration tools rather than shared physical space.

A remote EventStorming session conducts collaborative EventStorming online rather than in shared physical space. Its strengths come from adapting the practice to virtual conditions, not from reproducing every in-person behavior. section 7.4.2

Use remote sessions to make the workshop cadence more adaptable:

  • Replace one intensive workshop with multiple shorter sessions distributed across weeks or months. section 7.4.2
  • Reevaluate next steps and participants after each session instead of fixing the entire workshop sequence in advance. section 7.4.2
  • Set realistic expectations: a two-day workshop will not necessarily redesign the whole system or establish new Team Topologies. section 7.4.2

Distributed workshop cadence

Run two- to four-hour online sessions over several weeks or months, using the pauses between sessions to reassess the next step and who should participate. section 7.4.2

How Architecture Modernization: Socio-technical alignment of software, strategy, and structure covers it

How deep it goes
Compares remote and in-person constraints and gives cadence guidance, but stops short of detailed online facilitation mechanics.
Examples
Uses two- to four-hour sessions spread across weeks or months as the central remote-workshop example.
What you can do after
Operate remote EventStorming through shorter online sessions and iterative decisions about timing, next steps, and participants.
How it connects
Connects EventStorming with Team Topologies, organizational culture, and the distinction between remote and in-person collaboration.

Related concepts

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