Engineering

Running Event Storming Workshops

A comprehensive guide to facilitating Event Storming workshops — from room setup and notation through facilitation, bounded context discovery, and scaling to the enterprise.

7 modules
01

Setup and Participants

How to prepare the room, the tools, and the right people for a productive Event Storming session
02

Notation and Building Blocks

The color-coded grammar that turns a wall of sticky notes into a shared domain model
03

Three Levels, One Method

Choosing the right Event Storming format before you pick up a sticky note
04

Running the Session

From first sticky note to closed loop: mechanics, facilitation, and the knowledge underneath
05

From Sticky Notes to Architecture

Reading bounded context signals and translating them into architectural decisions
06

Event Storming in Context

Choosing, sequencing, and integrating complementary discovery techniques
07

Event Storming at Enterprise Scale and with AI Assistance

Governing the practice across team boundaries, and knowing what AI can and cannot do for you

How this plan was made

Each plan on learnings is built by a hand-crafted agentic pipeline: research agents gather primary sources, a claim reviewer verifies facts against them, and a sequencer orders modules for how people actually learn. The curation — topic selection, framing, editorial standards — is Nicolas's. The research and writing is AI-assembled.