Check out the next edition of the EventStorming Master Class in Berlin – 6-7 March 2025.
Click here if you’re lookin for info on the 2-3 December edition taking place in Berlin (all participants have been contacted via email).
If you’re looking for the online workshops, please check out the courses in live streaming by Alberto Brandolini: EventStorming Remote Modelling Workshop (4 half-day sessions) and Domain-Driven Design Executive View Training (one 3-hour session).
Abstract
EventStorming is a workshop format invented by Alberto Brandolini that enables massive learning on complex business domains and promotes collaboration between different disciplines and across teams.
A visually effective problem-solving technique that puts everyone on the same page, EventStorming was greatly defined by Dan North: “In any EventStorming session of all different kinds, everyone knows what everyone else knows“.
Target audience
EventStorming is interdisciplinary. The specialistic notation is dropped in favour of an incremental lo-fi approach that allows an inclusive approach while driving the exploration towards the most sensitive areas. Every participant will actively contribute.
Agenda
Day 1 – EventStorming as a discovery tool
- Quick kick-off: where we are and where we want to go
- Real-world Big Picture EventStorming, mastering complexity and unknowns in large-scale modelling
- Managing conflicts, highlighting risk, and the problems really worth solving
- The facilitator’s toolbox revealed
- Improving our process exploring motivations of different actors
- The Change agent’s perspective: why it’s going to be hard even when improvement is obvious, and how to deal with stalemates
- Everything’s connected: Lean & Kanban, complexity and organization limits
- Working with startups vs. working with established companies
- EventStorming as a platform for problem-solving
- ModelStorming: modelling everything without a clue (and yet delivering amazing insights).
Day 2 – Using EventStorming to design a system
- Emerging System Boundaries: from EventStorming to Bounded Contexts
- Process Modelling EventStorming: a cross-discipline platform for collaborative modelling
- A different perspective on software design: the picture that explains everything
- Making policies explicit. Discovering the hidden truth in business behaviour
- Design around Value: hidden and explicit motivators
- Software Design EventStorming: discovering key software components
- Aggregates and transactional consistency: independent moving parts in a large system
- Design around the bottleneck: changing the rules of the game
- Blending User Experience Design and Service Design into Software Design
- Triggering bullet-proof design with visible state
- The transaction illusion
- From sticky notes to working software. When to go for sophisticated architecture.
What you will learn
In this two-day EventStorming Master Class with Alberto Brandolini, we’ll practice three different flavours (Big Picture, Process Modelling and Software Design), applied to real-world business problems.
We’ll take into account the different perspectives (including the facilitator) in a process that spans large-scale discovery, to leverage collaborative design.
We’ll experience the how, and we’ll discuss the why.
F.A.Q.
Is the EventStorming Remote Modelling Workshop a comparable alternative?
Not exactly: Big Picture dynamics and principles are really different when happening in-person vs remotely, and there’s no way to have participants feel one type of the experience if you are in the other container. The Big picture is also less effective when played remotely.
The EventStorming Remote Modelling is designed to help you facilitate and design online workshops, whereas the EventStorming Master Class is aimed at teaching you how to facilitate an in-person EventStorming session.
So the answer is: no, the EventStorming Master Class and the EventStorming Remote Modelling Workshop are two different things.
Entry-level: Is there anything I need to know before joining this Master Class?
No prior experience with EventStorming is required. However, you’re welcome to check out the EventStorming Website.
Tools & Laptop: Do I need my laptop?
You won’t need a laptop in order to join this Master Class. In this highly interactive workshop, you’ll be engaging with Alberto Brandolini and other attendees for the majority of the time. We’ll also spend a lot of time standing and walking around, so please remember to wear comfortable shoes.
Learning materials: Will there be anything to take away with me after the Master Class is over?
Yes, there will be some booklets and other learning materials for you to take home.
About the workshop
Venue: Copernico Isola For S32, Via Sassetti, 32, 20124, Milan (metro/train: Isola/Garibaldi)
Language: English.
Time: from 9.30 am to 5.30 pm each day.
Laptop: Check out the FAQ section.
Max number of participants: 16 people.
Dress code: Informal. We recommend you wear comfortable shoes as the majority of the activities will involve walking around and standing up most of the time.
Included in the price: arrival coffee break, lunch and afternoon coffee break, each day.
Not included in the price: travel and accommodation.
Book it for your company
Contact us using the form at the bottom of this page if you wish to arrange a private custom edition of the EventStorming Master Class.
Testimonials
Also thanks to its inclusion in ThoughtWorks’ 2018 radar in the “Adopt” techniques, EventStorming became the de-facto standard in the Domain-Driven Design community for exploring and designing complex interactions.
A wide range of organisations has benefited from it: from online marketplaces to financial and trading institutions; from small startups to large-scale enterprises… and anything in between!
It’s no wonder EventStorming can be used in all types of business scenarios!
Read what people are saying about EventStorming:
Great experience! Alberto was a great trainer, even for non-technical people like me; I was able to learn by practising and getting real-life tips to put in place! Can’t wait to get EventStorming in my company!Flora Layni
Really engaging two days, definitely worth your time if you’re interested in business or software modelling. This has immediately given me some additional tools to work with, and a lot to think about! I would not hesitate to sign up for another Avanscoperta workshop.Wayne Durack
It was a great experience to learn from Alberto, and to share the learning experience with the other attendees. The group was just the right size for this type of hands-on workshop. We could all get to know each other and benefit from each others perspectives and views. Alberto succeeds in creating an atmosphere where everyone can feel comfortable to try without reservations, and learn from first making mistakes.Sara Van Der Bruggen
I am impressed by the in-depths and broad knowledge shared throughout the class. The created space and people provided an ideal learning environment that provided guidance.Mario Völker
I would highly recommend the EventStorming Masterclass to everyone willing to take a step further in being able to tackle challenging business and software design situations.Dmitry Ledentsov
Very useful Master Class when you want to get more out of the business you are working for with different hands-on tips.Kristof Serraes
Very insightful Master Class, my only regret is not taking it sooner!Jean Reis
A great class, EventStorming is a powerful methodology and Alberto is a valuable trainer sharing his experience and keeping a good vibe in the class.Guido Martini
I simply loved it. EventStorming is filling so many gaps in my daily business.Marc Lilienthal
Anyone involved in Digital Product Development should attend the EventStorming Master Class!Alex Jäger
Just before the pandemic started, I got to know EventStorming through the world of Domain-Driven Design. I immediately realized that this is a very interesting way to get to know a domain, processes or even the functioning of a company.
Unfortunately, at that time there was corona and social contacts were forbidden. I did study the matter further, but studying a book is still not the same as a workshop with like-minded people. So this training was very high on my list. Learning and experiencing how different people deal with this technique is fascinating to me. The little tips and tricks that you learn from an event like this are invaluable.
Jurgen Stillaert
Alberto and the Avanscoperta team: you created a fantastic training experience during “EventStorming Master Class”!
I felt already welcome at the time of booking the ticket, then experienced a training that was packed with knowledge and practical experience, and later received a wonderfully complete aftermath email with lots of stuff I can use to make my event storming sessions a success.
Thanks a lot!Matthias Bohlen – Software Consultant
If you are in the business of helping organisations understand how they really work, Event Storming is an essential tool to have in your kit bag.
Deceptively simple, EventStorming is a great way to illustrate both the human and system interactions of a business in all their idiosyncratic tendenciesChris Moore
Event Storming is a fantastic technique for eliciting information from the entire team and enabling a shared understanding.Claire Montgomery
The EventStorming Master Class in Milan was a brilliant two-day workshop packed with knowledge. Not only did I get the method itself through hands-on practice but also a lot of little hints and tricks on how to react to participants’ body language and general behaviour. I learnt lots.Elke Bethke
