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 22 weekly modules of 4 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.

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

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 are taught by other instructors. The course outline is designed by Mathias Verraes and Thomas Coopman.

Pricing

The standard price is €6500 + 21% VAT per participant.

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

We offer sizable discounts for:

Early Bird purchases > 2 months before the start date
Individuals who purchase out-of-pocket
Group purchases
Combo purchases with other workshops
...

Insurance: People come and go, and that exposes you to some risk. That's why we offer an optional insurance. If your employee leaves your company between the start and the end of the course, we will refund the remaining sessions, calculated pro rate. The fee for this option is 6% of the course price.

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.