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To curb the current coronavirus pandemic, our training courses are currently only available as online-only sessions until further notice.
This ISAQB IMPROVE module is an exception, because we plan the training as a hybrid event. Please let us know which format you prefer when you register (online or on site).
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Good business software must be tailored to the domain and the tasks of its users. Therefore, all roles involved in software development must understand the domain and speak the domain language of the department: developers, testers, product owners, project managers and requirements engineers. With the help of domain storytelling you can build this common basis for understanding. The often-existing traditional gaps between departments can be narrowed and bridged.
Collectively modelling business processes
Domain storytelling means that experts tell stories about their domain. As we listen, we record the domain stories with a visual language in front of the experts. This means that everyone involved can immediately see whether the problem (or the story) has been understood correctly. After just a few domain stories, we developed the main concepts of a domain: actors, their tasks, their tools (e.g. IT systems and apps) and the processed objects (e.g. documents).
Who is this training for?
- Product owners
- Business analysts / requirements engineers
- Developers with direct customer contact
- Testers
- Project managers
- Department key users
- Scrum masters





What can I use domain storytelling for?
- As an entry into a new domain
Develop a domain language, understand work processes - Bridge technical “silos”
through collaborative modelling - Find domain cuts for software
Heuristics for a good cut of modules, microservices and bounded contexts - Design target processes
Coordinate work processes and software development. Making changes from the current to target product transparent. - Document current processes
for training manuals and formal documents such as company agreements and procedural instructions - Identify requirements
by direct derivation from the domain stories - Define minimum viable products
by reducing the IT-supported processes to the essentials
Core content
- How to use and adapt domain storytelling for different purposes
- Which tools are suitable for domain storytelling (we try some of them)?
- How to conduct and follow up on domain storytelling workshops
Practical training
- 1-2 training days with individually tailored content
- Approx. 50% hands-on exercises
- Small exercise groups, feedback from trainers
- Examples from real-life projects
Advanced topics
- Domain storytelling for domain-driven design (DDD)
- Strategic design with “big picture” domain stories
- Derive ubiquitous language from domain stories
- From domain stories to the building blocks of tactical design
- This lecture gives you an insight into how we use domain storytelling for DDD.
- Delimitation and combination with other modeling techniques
Event storming, user story mapping and example mapping
Your individual training
We adjust the training content to suit your individual needs – from individual coaching up to groups of 12 people, for DDD development teams or employees from departments without a technical background. Contact us and we will make you an offer tailored to your needs.
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The workshop was great and fun.
We definitely want to try out more of domain storytelling in our team.
Klaus Müller, Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH
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