Event Storming — A 90-Minute Workshop

From sticky notes to bounded contexts.

Theory

Event Storming (Alberto Brandolini) is a workshop format: get domain experts and developers in a room with infinite wall space and orange sticky notes. Each sticky = one domain event. Arrange them in time. Then discover commands (blue), aggregates (yellow), policies (purple), and bounded contexts (swimlanes) — in that order.

It's the single fastest way to surface aggregates and contexts that took previous projects months to find.

Reflect

Plan a one-hour mini event-storm for a process you know.

  • Which 10–15 events would you start with?
  • Where do you expect a context boundary to emerge?

Marking as read tracks your progress through this lesson.