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EventStorming and Collaborative Workshops
WorkshopProduct managersEngineersArchitectsTeam Leads

EventStorming and Collaborative Workshops

Learn practical facilitation techniques like EventStorming and Context Mapping to run high-impact discovery workshops. You’ll leave with actionable artifacts (timelines, context maps, prioritized pain points) and the confidence to facilitate sessions that turn messy conversations into shared understanding.

Duration

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Language

English

Certification

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Format

In-person/Online

Level

Manager/Leader

Best for

Who Is it For?

Your specialization

Your current area of expertise

Product managers and owners

Engineers and architects

Team leads and Scrum Masters

What you bring to the table

Your experience & skill set

No Domain-Driven Design knowledge required

Some experience running or participating in workshops or cross-functional meetings is helpful

Course objectives

Key Takeaways

By the end of this course, participants will be able to

Facilitate an EventStorming session: set up the space, select participants (doers over observers), 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: EventStorming for process discovery and bottleneck identification, Context Mapping for system landscape and integration analysis

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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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What you will learn

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
Who is Your Instructor?

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.