The Importance of Learning

Software development is a learning process, working code is a side effect.

– Alberto Brandolini

Dividing organizations in sealed departments without effective communication generates several problems, the main one being the lack of understanding of the business as a whole system by the people inside the single departments. The good thing is that the problem can potentially be resolved – or at least improved – with the right dose of learning. In this context, EventStorming becomes an amazing tool for enabling rapidly shared learning at an organizational level.

“It allows learning to happen across the silo boundaries. It’s not an initiative to transform the organization, but a tool to understand what’s going on, at a wider scale. We’ll see how asking stakeholders to model a complex business flow together will expose many of the conflicts and contradictions happening at the boundaries between silos. It...