Lone Star Software Symposium: Austin
July 22 - 24, 2011
Strategic Design Using DDD
Friday - Jul 22 1:15 PM CDT - Salon D
Not every part of a software system will be well-designed. How do you know where to put the time and effort to refine the design, or refactor existing code? Learn how strategic Domain-Driven Design (DDD) patterns can show you how to know which parts of your system matter most to your business and how to focus your team's design efforts most effectively.
Context mapping and Core Domain are key concepts in DDD, providing valuable techniques and insights into where to focus your design attention, yet most developers have never heard of them. This session will introduce the tools of strategic DDD and show you how they can shine a light on your design challenges.
About Paul Rayner
Paul is a seasoned design coach and leadership mentor, helping teams ignite their design skills via Domain-Driven Design (DDD) and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD). He gets teams unstuck through intensive coaching workshops and hands-on pair programming, combined with focused one-on-one leadership mentoring. His company Virtual Genius, provides training and coaching in collaborative design for agile teams. Paul actively serves the community: teaching classes in BDD and DDD, contributing to OSS, and co-leading the DDD Denver Meetup group.
Look for him speaking at user groups and at local and international conferences. Paul is from Perth, Australia, but chooses to live, work and play with his wife and two children, in Denver, Colorado. He tweets with an Australian accent at @ThePaulRayner and blogs at thepaulrayner.com