From Events to Boundaries: Hands-On Context Mapping
Details
This event is a collaboration with our friends from Domain Driven Design Berlin, check out their Meetup page here and sign up there!
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About the evening
Join us for our next Berlin Collaborative Modelling session — a hands-on workshop where we'll build a Context Map from scratch.
Context Maps make the big picture of a system explicit: which bounded contexts exist, how they relate to each other, and where the friction, dependencies, and power dynamics between teams actually live. They help you make better decisions about integration strategies, team ownership, and where to invest in clean boundaries versus where to accept pragmatic compromise.
To get there, we'll use Event Storming as our starting point — laying out domain events to discover natural clusters of behavior, then drawing boundaries around them to identify candidate bounded contexts and subdomains. From there, we'll sketch out the relationships between contexts and discuss what patterns like Customer/Supplier, Conformist, or Anti-Corruption Layer look like in practice.
What to expect:
This is a collaborative, stickies-on-the-wall kind of evening. No laptops needed, no prior DDD experience required — just curiosity about how to make sense of complex systems. We'll work through a shared example domain together, so everyone starts from the same place.
RSVPS:
Please sing up on the event page from Domain Driven Design Berlin!
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Code of Conduct
We adhere to the Berlin Code of Conduct to ensure a welcoming and respectful environment for all participants. The event space operates under largely compatible Thoughtworks Meetups & Events CoC.
Accessibility
The Location is accessible for wheelchair users. This includes the entrance (no steps to get into the location), toilets and the stage.