The EventStorming Approach
EventStorming is a learning activity about the business’s value stream delivered in the form of workshop. At a very high level, it can be seen as a process composed of several steps:
- See the system as a whole.
- Find a problem worth solving.
- Gather the best, immediately available information.
- Start implementing a solution from the best possible starting point.
This is what Alberto does with EventStorming: he gathers the people with the best available knowledge for the job and collaboratively builds a holistic model of the problem space, which usually is very complex.
In a changing world, everything is evolving: technology, people, the organization itself, the surrounding business, and the job market too. Assuming that one of these ingredients will be immutable during a nontrivial change initiative is not a legitimate simplification: it’s just plain naive. But there is one thing that we can do: we can take a snapshot...