(Virtual) How can we do a collaborative eventstorming in a COVID virtual world?

We'll be co-hosting this Meetup with the Agile Coaching Exchange in SoCal.

Thomas Coopman will show us how to do eventstorming in a virtual fashion where we are all on zoom and yet we need to do constructive collaboration and event storm without being physically in the same room!

This will be an interactive exercise. Prefer cameras on for this event. (No pressure if you don't want to). The key is active collaboration.
So un-mute yourself and let's have a productive discussion.

We're all trying to cope with virtual collaboration. Let's all learn from each other.

We'll be using a tool called Miro:
https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_koCTMt8=/

What is EventStorming?
EventStorming is a highly collaborative method for modeling domains and solving real business problems. Software Engineers, Product Owners, Analysts, Coaches, and Domain Experts, work together to:

• explore a complex business;
• visualize it using large surfaces and sticky notes
• and use it to build better software, with an architecture that matches the problem space.

In a remote setting, some of the premises of EventStorming might be hard to replicate. That doesn't mean that we can't do any remote EventStorming at all.

Find out during this meetup what is possible and how you can get started with remote EventStorming.

We'll tackle a problem with Big Picture EventStorming, using domain events to map out the processes. While working, we'll add more information and go into deeper problems.

Adding commands and rules to the model will guide the learning process and help surface problems with the solution. By this point, we'll be able to explore the full potential of this temporal modeling technique to discover deeper insights about the domain, build our shared knowledge, and guide us to better solutions for business problems.

Join if you
...have some experience working in a software development team
...want to use remote event storming in your team
...are ready to get your hands dirty!

You don't need knowledge of any particular programming language or technology.

Tips for our remote meeting:

• Join up to 15 min prior to start for testing your equipment
• Make sure that you're in a quiet room
• Have a stable internet connection
• You will also need to speak; a headset/good microphone helps a lot
• Turn on your webcam, that's a lot more enjoyable for the other participants
• Having a big screen or a second screen can be very useful, then you can see both the tools and the people at the same time

About Thomas Coopman

Thomas is an independent software engineer and consultant focused on the full stack: frontend, backend and also people, practices and processes. Thomas is active in Domain-Driven Design(DDD) Belgium and the Belgian Software Crafters community. Thomas also teaches two day workshops on Eventstorming at DDD Conferences.
Thomas is a polyglot and loves to learn new languages. His latest language studies have taken him to Elixir, Elm, and OCaml, and he has a special affinity for functional programming languages.