From the course: Software Architecture: Domain-Driven Design

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The physical setup

The physical setup

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The physical setup

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- [Instructor] Now you do event storming with a bunch of simple tools. The important one is the sticky note. So this is a very sticky note intensive process. First order of business with event storming is you put one event per note and then arrange them left to right on a whiteboard. Now you'll notice looking at this picture that they're not putting the notes directly on the board, and that's actually kind of important. There are a couple of physical issues here. Sticky notes don't stick to paint very well, but they stick to paper really well. So generally speaking when you're doing event storming you can't just stick the sticky notes up on a wall because they'll start falling off after a while. Instead what you do is you take a piece of paper, tape it up to the wall, and then put the events onto the piece of paper. Not only does that work better, but it makes it easier to move things around as necessary. It has the other…

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