Collaborative Software Design MEAP V05

Collaborative Software Design: How to facilitate domain modeling decisions is a practical guide to conducting effective software design sessions that involve all business and technical stakeholders. It lays out pragmatic techniques for making collaborative design decisions, ensuring you’re getting a group’s full participation and input to solve real business problems. You’ll deliver results by combining collaborative modeling tools, and learn how to manage conflicts, handle resistance, and keep everyone involved even when a session has ended. Put these techniques into practice, and you’ll be able to facilitate incredibly effective design sessions in which everyone’s voices are heard. In Collaborative Software Design: How to facilitate domain modeling decisions you’ll learn how to: • Prepare and facilitate collaborative modeling sessions with tools such as Business Model Canvas, Event Storming, Example Mapping, and Wardley Mapping • Pick and apply heuristics for modeling software design • Structure, visualize, and make sustainable software design decisions • Best practices for getting all needed insight from the group • Dealing with resistance • Create awareness around biases and ranking during a modeling session • Best practices for following up after a modeling session • Document the session and report to stakeholders