Domain Storytelling

Professional Requirements in Software Development: Understanding and Being Understood

Identifying domain-specific boundaries to organize software and teams accordingly. Deriving requirements from domain stories. Combining domain storytelling with event storming, user story mapping, and other agile software development methods.

Storytelling is deeply rooted in human communication - this holds true even in the age of software. Telling and visualizing domain-specific stories makes business processes and expertise tangible. This book demonstrates how you can develop application software that is professionally sound using simple means. Domain storytelling helps transfer the expertise from the minds of users to the minds of developers, product owners, product management, and business analysts. It brings stakeholders together in workshops to align on tasks and processes within the company. The results are documented in a simple visual language. Stefan Hofer and Henning Schwentner explain through understandable examples how domain stories are created and how to use domain storytelling for domain-driven design, requirements gathering, and other purposes.