DDD Accelerator

Quality software design makes your team faster.

Domain-Driven Design stands out as software methodology. It tackles complexity at the local level (in the code), at the system level, and in between systems (integration). It's never design for the sake of design: by centring on the domain, DDD puts software to work for the business.

We've created the world's first complete DDD training program for engineers and engineering teams. During 5 months of weekly modules of 3.5 hours each, your team will grow skilled in Domain-Driven Design, as well as the practices & habits to make DDD work. In a mix of practical and theoretical sessions on test automation, collaboration, design patterns, refactoring, modelling, EventStorming, Context Mapping, and more, they'll be ready to tackle your organisation's future challenges.

Who is this for?

Your scale-up is hiring engineers faster than you can train them.
You're leading a new project, a modernization of an existing system, or a re-engineering effort, and you want your team to avoid the pitfalls that harmed the old systems.
You're a freelance software engineer, looking to learn the practices to tackle more complex problems, and increase your impact at your clients.

The format of weekly half day sessions allows your organisation to keep working on deliverables, while gradually upskilling your teams.

We can help you figure out who in your team will benefit from this program or one of our other courses. Contact us.

Program

The program is subject to change as we iterate over the contents.

Timezone: Europe, Amsterdam.

Theme 1: Great Habits
1. Pair & Ensemble Programming Feb 8, 2022, 09:00 - 13:00
2. Test-Driven Development Feb 15, 2022, 09:00 - 13:00
3. Refactoring Essentials Feb 22, 2022, 09:00 - 13:00
4. Value Objects Mar 1, 2022, 09:00 - 13:00
5. Practice session + Q&A Mar 8, 2022, 09:00 - 13:00
Theme 2: DDD Locally
6. Tactical Patterns (Entities, Repositories, Services) Mar 15, 2022, 09:00 - 13:00
7. Design level EventStorming Mar 22, 2022, 09:00 - 13:00
8. Modelling (Expressing EventStorming models in code) Mar 29, 2022, 09:00 - 13:00
9. Tactical: Patterns for Business Rules and Processes Apr 5, 2022, 09:00 - 13:00
10. Practice session + Q&A Apr 12, 2022, 09:00 - 13:00
Theme 3: DDD at the System Level
11. Understanding DDD (From Code to Design, Architecture, and Ubiquitous Language) Apr 19, 2022, 09:00 - 13:00
12. Big Picture EventStorming (Method) Apr 26, 2022, 09:00 - 13:00
13. Big Picture EventStorming (Interviewing Domain Experts, Heuristics, Facilitation) May 3, 2022, 09:00 - 13:00
14. DDD in Legacy Systems May 10, 2022, 09:00 - 13:00
15. Practice session + Q&A May 17, 2022, 09:00 - 13:00
Theme 4: DDD Between Systems
16. Thinking in Events May 24, 2022, 09:00 - 13:00
17. Integration Patterns May 31, 2022, 09:00 - 13:00
18. Splitting Monoliths Jun 7, 2022, 09:00 - 13:00
19. Bounded Contexts Jun 14, 2022, 09:00 - 13:00
20. The Bounded Context Canvas Jun 21, 2022, 09:00 - 13:00
21. Bringing it all together Jun 28, 2022, 09:00 - 13:00
22. Expert Q&A Jul 5, 2022, 09:00 - 13:00

Teaching Style

We use Zoom (or similar), Miro (virtual collaborative whiteboard).
There are a healthy mix of theory and practical group exercises.
Programming exercises are designed to teach concepts that universal to all Object-Oriented languages. Depending on the context, the exercises use pseudocode, or are available in a number of popular languages, or are designed to not require knowledge of the language used.
There are collaborative domain discovery and modelling exercises.
The number of participants per session is limited for exercises that require a lot of interaction with the instructors.

Instructors

Thomas Coopman is the lead instructor for the first series, and some modules may be taught by other instructors. The course outline is designed by Mathias Verraes and Thomas Coopman.

Pricing

The standard price is €6500 (+VAT) per participant.

We offer discounts for:

Early Bird purchases
Individuals who purchase out-of-pocket
Group purchases
Combo purchases with other workshops
...

We must charge 21% VAT for both B2B and B2C purchases, according to Belgian tax law (art. 21, §3, 3° W.Btw).

Why DDD Europe?

We have been leading engineering teams to apply DDD since 2009, and have been teaching DDD courses both publicly and privately since 2012. In 2016, we founded DDD Europe, and have since been the world's leading provider of a wide range of DDD and related courses. We are trusted by customers ranging from SMBs to organisations like Shopify, Danske Bank, and SAP. Since the start, our approach has involved lots of hands-on practice. We've always made sure to collect a lot of feedback from customers, and we make sure that it actually feeds back into our work.