EventStorming Remote Experience Workshop

If you’re looking for the in-person workshop, check out the EventStorming Master Class page.

EventStorming is an incredibly powerful and versatile tool to navigate complexity and modelling organizations, business flows and software too.

EventStorming leverages interpersonal communication to deliver a compelling collaborative discovery & design experience.
But what if our organization’s constraints don’t allow in-person workshops, and remote interaction is our only remaining option?

The EventStorming Remote Experience Workshop will give you practice, examples, patterns and heuristics to design and lead your own workshops.

In this workshop, we’ll put the three flavours of EventStorming to test in a remote setting, and we’ll learn and practice how to make the best use of remote tools, overcoming the limitations of a remote experience and leveraging the possibilities offered by digital media.

Learning Objectives

• How to design and lead the three main formats of EventStorming in a remote digital environment
• How to deal with the common impediments happening before, during and after the workshops
• How to use EventStorming in a variety of scenarios, customizing the format to better achieve our desired goals
• When and when not to go for the digital version.

The Trainer

Alberto Brandolini is a 360° software expert, always looking for the missing ingredient to improve things.

In 2013, Alberto came up with the EventStorming idea. It started as a tool to model complex business processes quickly in a Domain-Driven Design fashion. But over the years, it evolved into an incredibly versatile tool for modelling organisations, processes, and software, intentionally crossing the lines between business and tech. The ability to uncover hidden problems in a very short time allowed Alberto to build unique cross-discipline expertise after modelling many different domains and businesses around the world.

His book Introducing EventStorming is probably the most successful unfinished book on the Leanpub platform.

Alberto is also the person behind the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle.

Target audience

EventStorming Remote Experience Workshop is aimed at software practitioners, workshop facilitators, professionals involved in the development of digital products and services, and explorers who want to practice EventStorming on the field.

Topics

• The many flavours of EventStorming, recipes and purposes
• Discovering complexity with Big Picture: from divergence to structure to validated narrative. Key facilitation patterns for the online setting
• Exploring Value-Added Layers: where and how is value created in our flows? Can we gather consensus about opportunities for improvement? Can we extract information about the decomposition of the underlying software and the way teams are organized? Can we extract a structured backlog for our project?
• Modelling processes hands-on: how a coloured grammar will shape an interdisciplinary conversation
• Scaling facilitation and interaction styles in design: from collaborative games to ensemble modelling
• Designing software systems: identifying key components and bounded contexts in complex flows
• Designing your own format: heuristics to choose steps, formats and constraints given your own scenario.

Agenda

In these five online remote sessions, we’ll cover:

• Exploration in an online setting, making sense of divergent realities.
• Explicit walkthrough and value-added layers
• Process Modelling format. Tools for interdisciplinary collaboration
• Software Design format. Closing the gap to implementation.

How it works

This workshop is mostly practical. We’ll simulate a real-life complexity scenario with a role-playing game, and we’ll drill down into the scenario from different angles and with different levels of depth.
Those intense moments will be balanced with more open-ended discussions, and disclosing some of the dirty secrets of online facilitation.

Testimonials…

A fantastic opportunity to learn EventStorming directly from Alberto.Giovanni Chiodi

Great training course. The insights provided by Alberto based on his experience with the methodology are invaluable.Andrea Gioia

Great workshop to quickly learn all the formats of EventStorming right from the author and avoid some pitfalls thanks to the advice Alberto gives from his rich experience.Michał Lisowski

Great opportunity to become more familiarized with EventStorming – in a practical way – and lead sessions in your work.Danilo Teodoro

Alberto shattered my assumptions about designing software and showed me how to design systems in a faster, collaborative, and joyful way. Fantastic experience & absolutely worth the money.Marcel Krčah

This workshop is an invaluable resource for those interested in this modelling technique. To have Alberto’s the shortcuts, methods, best practices and experience, the whats, the hows and the whys is definitely priceless. If you’re into this, this workshop is a no brainer.Tomás Ruiz

This workshop provides excellent indications for remotely managing a workshop designed for the physical world. A skilful mix of tools and facilitation to get the result even remotely.David Bramini

I’ve been trained by Alberto Brandolini in April 2021 in a remote session. I’ve really appreciated learning by doing in a safe space with my colleagues. Even though I’d prefer meeting people in real life, the training is totally adapted for remote learning. Perfect logistic and organization. I 100% recommend it. Thank youQuê-Minh VO – OCTO Technologies

“EventStorming Remote Modelling” is a very engaging workshop with interesting examples that give you hands-on experience with what you have learnt.
Alberto gently guides you to better outcomes by reviewing yours and your teams work and giving great advice about his experiences applying the technique.
Even though it was an online course it worked well and I learned an approach that I think will allow me to engage with my stakeholders and start being productive with them within minutes.Ari Edinburg

There is probably not a better source to learn about EventStorming than from Alberto Brandolini and Avanscoperta!Michał Popielnicki

“EventStorming Remote Modelling” online workshop reaches its goal to provide recipes to be able to enjoy and outcome value from a counter-intuitive online experience.Maxime Sanglan-Charlier

With the very hands-on approach, you can immediately try the modelling techniques out with your fellow students. This makes this workshop really useful.Piet De Ceuleners

Collaborating on anything in a remote environment is tough. Alberto led us through the problems and possible solutions to a place where I am now confident to do this more effectively. Highly recommended.Dave Myler

It is an amazing workshop if you have the right mindset. Alberto utilizes the full potential of the available tools and lets the group generate beautiful learnings from there.
It is a great standalone course and it depends strongly on the experience of the attendees, so bring your friends.Marco Heimeshoff

So much learnt, practise and ready to exercise in real life. Definetely worth doing this workshop to learn more about the EventStorming framework and specially about remote facilitation, so hugely needed nowadays. Thanks to the team and Alberto for giving me the opportunity to participate and organising it with so much care.Laura Fernandez Villar

Tons and tons of material and food for thought and kind of a dizzy feeling from coming up to quickly from the virtual depths that we dove to. Lots of fun in a very lively group. This was the first, but certainly not the last and you should jump into that pool, if you get the chance! Many thanks to the team at Avanscoperta and Alberto Brandolini for making this happen.Jörg Müller-Kindt

The “EventStorming Remote Modelling” Online workshop is a great opportunity to learn the newest EventStorming tips and tricks from Alberto himself!Philip Schmitt

Collective exploration and design in a remote environment can be daunting, but EventStorming provides the right structure to build shared understanding and accelerate decision-making.Matteo Cavucci

The “EventStorming Remote Modelling” Online Workshop by Alberto Brandolini has one of the highest value to cost ratios among my educational experiences.Xin Yao