Domain Storytelling

Good business software has to be tailored to the user's professionalism and tasks. Therefore, all roles involved in software development must understand the domain and speak the language of the business: Developers, testers, product owners, project managers and requirements assessors. Domain storytelling can help build this common understanding. The often traditional divides between business and IT are narrowing.

Modelling business processes collaboratively

Domain storytelling means that domain experts tell stories about their domain. While we listen, we record the domain stories in front of the subject matter experts using a visual language. In this way, all participants can immediately see whether it was understood correctly. After only a few domain stories, we have already worked out the essential concepts of a domain: Actors, their tasks, their tools (e.g. IT systems and apps) and the processed work objects (e.g. documents).

• As an introduction to a new domain
  Developing technical language, understanding work processes

• Bridging technical "silos
  through collaborative modelling

• Finding technical cuts for software
  Heuristics for good intersection of modules, microservices and bounded contexts

• Designing target processes
  Align workflows and software development, make changes from actual to target transparent

• Document actual processes
  for training manuals and formal documents such as company agreements and procedural instructions

• Identify requirements
  by deriving them directly from the domain stories

• Define Minimum Viable Products
  by reducing the IT-supported processes to the essentials

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