Mastering Event Storming Facilitation: From Big Picture to Design Insights
Facilitating Event Storming is more than running a workshop – it’s about guiding a group through discovery, analysis, and design in a way that uncovers risks, builds alignment, and accelerates decision-making.
In this 2-day intensive workshop, you will learn how to design and lead Big Picture and Process Level Event Storming sessions, with a glimpse into Design Level. You’ll explore techniques for managing group dynamics, extracting insights from domain experts, and connecting workshop outcomes to strategic and tactical Domain-Driven Design (DDD).
By the end, you’ll be ready to act as a confident facilitator who helps both business and technical stakeholders see the whole system, identify contexts, and shape decisions together.
Learning Objectives
Master the roles, responsibilities, and techniques of an Event Storming facilitator.
Learn how to set up, run, and guide Big Picture and Process Level Event Storming sessions.
Practice methods for collaborating with domain experts and capturing ubiquitous language.
Apply DDD concepts such as Bounded Contexts and Context Mapping in facilitation.
Discover how to recognize hot spots, risks, and integration challenges during workshops.
Learn facilitation strategies to manage group dynamics, conflicts, and focus.
Key Benefits
Hands-on training in facilitating, not just participating in Event Storming.
Practical tools for connecting business analysis with architecture decisions.
Techniques to keep groups engaged, productive, and aligned.
Ability to transform chaos into structured outcomes: contexts, aggregates, policies, test scenarios.
Confidence to lead workshops that deliver concrete design inputs, not endless sticky notes.
Who Should Attend?
Software architects and lead developers facilitating modeling sessions.
Business and system analysts responsible for bridging business and IT.
Product owners and team leaders seeking stronger alignment tools.
Anyone tasked with guiding workshops that span business, design, and architecture.
Prerequisites
Familiarity with software design process or business analysis.
Openness to interactive, group-based facilitation techniques.
Practicalities
Level: Intermediate
Presenter:
I help teams delivering value faster, understanding business needs and building scalable Architecture and Shift-left Testing Strategy. With a passion and trust.
I have the experience, knowledge, passion and open mindset - perfect skills to deliver value to the customers and the businesses with:
✔ Speed - required to catch the market opportunity
✔ Quality - to retain and scale
Proven by:
✔ Building and maintaining systems at the core for the entire business stability
✔ Significantly reducing the cost of manual tests by implementing Shift-left testing strategy
✔ Iteratively designing and building Architecture open for business expansion yet not over-engineered
Agenda – What You’ll Learn and Practice
1. Introduction to Event Storming
• What is a domain event and why it matters
• Roles in a session: business experts, modelers, facilitator
• The facilitator’s mindset: divergent → emergent → convergent exploration
Learn to prepare and set the stage for discovery across business and tech.
2. Facilitating Group Work
• How to prepare the room (physical or virtual)
• Techniques for engaging diverse stakeholders
• Handling conflicts, keeping focus, and guiding energy
Develop soft skills to manage group dynamics and keep sessions productive.
3. Big Picture Event Storming in Practice
• Discovering domain events and structuring the timeline
• Identifying actors, dependencies, and risks
• Finding hotspots and potential bottlenecks
• Introducing Bounded Contexts and strategic integration
Turn chaotic discussions into a visual map of business processes and contexts.
4. From Events to Strategic DDD
• Applying ubiquitous language during sessions
• Creating context maps from Event Storming outcomes
Bridge the gap between business exploration and architecture vision.
5. Process Level Event Storming
• Narrowing down from Big Picture to focused processes
• Mapping commands, policies, read models, and external systems
Learn to guide deeper analysis of specific business workflows.
6. Elements of Design Level
• Aggregates and consistency boundaries
• Typical pitfalls and anti-patterns in modeling
Understand when and how to introduce design-level insights without overwhelming participants.
7. Using Artefacts Beyond the Workshop
• Turning workshop results into architectural decisions
• Defining teams and responsibilities
• Linking outcomes to testing: acceptance criteria, scenario-based tests
Deliver results that teams can implement, not just document.
8. Common Pitfalls and Good Practices
• Anti-patterns in facilitation and modeling
• When to stop and what not to over-engineer
• Building your facilitator toolkit
Leave with confidence and a playbook for future workshops.
