EventStorming

Your Benefits
through EventStorming

Visualise and understand complex domains together
Enable cross-functional collaboration without barriers
Gain new perspectives on processes, systems, and dependencies
Make ideas, risks, and solution approaches visible early
Interdisciplinary exploration of all relevant use cases
Lightweight handling of grown complexity
Rapid perspective shifts through highly visual working methods
Foster knowledge transfer between all participants
Develop a shared vocabulary and reduce misunderstandings
Create alignment between product, business, and tech
Establish a basis for decisions on architecture, design, and team structure

EventStorming Workshop tangible concepts

How we approach
EventStorming

Every EventStorming is as unique as the underlying domain. Our approach does not follow a rigid script — it adapts to the goal, context, and participants, creating a structured yet flexible framework that leaves room for genuine insights.

Clarify the problem space and define the workshop goal
Invite relevant stakeholders from business, product, and tech
Prepare the Big Picture board (long paper roll / digital board)
Collectively gather domain events and make them visible
Sort events chronologically and identify gaps and misunderstandings
Mark hot spots, risks, and ambiguities
Add actors, processes, policies, and external systems
Derive structures, dependencies, and potential bounded contexts
Discuss insights and work out options for action
Consolidate findings and define next steps
Prepare and document results

EventStorming Variants

Big Picture EventStorming

Creates a shared overview of the domain, makes interdependencies, dependencies, and hot spots visible, and lays the groundwork for strategic decisions.

Process Level EventStorming

Focuses on concrete business processes, reveals flow, responsibilities, and breakpoints, and makes optimisation potential tangible.

Software Design EventStorming

Distils domain insights into technical structures and supports the derivation of models, aggregates, and interfaces.

Test Viability

Does an existing model hold up for future use cases? How well can an idea be implemented with available resources?

Manage Complexity

Gain an overview of the big picture in a workshop. Ideal for onboarding new team members or bringing additional stakeholders into the conversation.

Guide Investment

Where are the most important improvement opportunities hiding? Where does investment in the software pay off? Where is attention lacking?

Maintainable Software

The system exists and covers essential business processes — but how do you achieve future-readiness and maintainability? EventStorming helps identify hot spots and discover alternatives.