Episode 451 | Alberto Brandolini - Mistakes and Experiments

Guest:

Alberto Brandolini

@ziobrando

Alberto Brandolini talks with Dave Rael about EventStorming, experimentation, inspiration, visualization, design, and helping teams

Alberto Brandolini can model every business domain, given enough space, a paper roll and an unlimited source of colored sticky notes (with a larger stock of orange ones). His contributions to the community include EventStorming, Model Storming and, more notably, the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle. Alberto Brandolini is an IT Professional that gets bored doing things in the same old way. This led him into unexplored areas of Domain-Driven Design, Lean and Agile Software Development, learning and change management, where he likes to bring apparent chaotic fuzziness and a comic-like visual touch. An active consultant in software product development, he also runs his company Avanscoperta. He’s frequently invited as a speaker in many conferences in Italy (where he’s based) and around Europe.

Chapters: 1:22 - Dave introduces the show and Alberto Brandolini4:43 - The virtue of trying different things and making mistakes10:06 - Origins of EventStorming16:36 - Recipes for EventStorming and interpretations23:04 - Stories as a way of understanding25:07 - Alberto's use of sticky notes27:36 - Boundaries, liberty and constraints30:34 - Alberto's stories of failure - being misunderstood, dealing with organizations you can't help38:25 - Alberto's book recommendations41:07 - Alberto's introduction to Domain-Driven Design43:34 - Alberto's top 3 tips for delivering more value48:47 - Keeping up with Alberto

Resources: Avanscoperta EventStorming Alberto's Event Storming Book Alberto' on Medium Explore DDD Eric Evans on Developer On Fire Greg Young Lost (TV series) Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software - Erich Gamma Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software - Eric Evans

Alberto's book recommendation: The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully - Gerald M. Weinberg Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility" (Incerto) - Nassim Nicholas Taleb Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto) - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Alberto's top 3 tips for delivering more value: Create a visual representation of the problem Look at what people are not saying Never get satisfied with your first solution