Discovery Workshops: Reveal Hidden Complexity
Most enterprise IT projects are doomed even before they start. Why? Because nobody puts domain experts and developers in the same room to discover the complexity together. In this course, you'll learn practical facilitation techniques like EventStorming and Context Mapping and leave with the confidence to run impactful workshops.
Duration
Half-day
Language
English
Certification
No
Format
In-person/Online
Best Fit Level
Manager/Leader
Investment for yourself?
825 €
Investment for the team?
Get a QuoteWho Is It For?
Designed for
Product Managers and Product Owners
Engineers and Tech Leads
Business Architects
What you bring to the table
No Domain-Driven Design knowledge required
Some experience running or participating in workshops or cross-functional meetings is helpful
Key Takeaways
By the end of this course, you will be able to
Facilitate an EventStorming session: set up the space, select participants, seed the timeline, and guide the group from chaotic exploration to shared understanding
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Facilitate a Context Mapping session: map system boundaries, identify upstream/downstream relationships, and surface hidden dependencies between teams and systems
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Recognize which technique fits which situation.
3
Create psychological safety in a workshop setting so disagreements surface hidden complexity rather than shutting people down
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Walk out of a session with actionable artifacts: a shared timeline, a context map, identified pain points, and a prioritized list of what to do next
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Translate workshop insights into better product, architecture, and team decisions, so discoveries from the room lead to real alignment and follow-through
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Program
An instructor-led workshop/masterclass focused on hands-on, collaborative discovery. You’ll learn when to use each technique and practice facilitation patterns you can apply immediately in real product, platform, or legacy-modernization contexts.
From order-taking to proactive product shaping.
Events, commands, policies, actors, and the art of a chaotic timeline.
Running a session from seed event to shared understanding.
Bounded contexts, upstream/downstream, conformist vs. anticorruption patterns.
Mapping a real system landscape and surfacing hidden dependencies.
Participant selection, psychological safety, handling disagreements, and knowing when to dig deeper.
Turning session artifacts into backlogs, roadmaps, and team alignment.
Davide Rovati
Davide studied linguistics and spent the first few years of his career in product teams working on Natural Language Processing projects at Google. From there, he moved on to AI startups and now consulting, leading teams at the intersection of business and technology. His main focus nowadays is to bring product management principles and practices into the world of data & AI teams. Davide helps data and engineering teams use product thinking to focus on real customer value and clear results. In recent engagements, he dealt with how teams are set up and how they work together to cut handoffs and speed up delivery.
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