Developer on Fire
Episode 451 | Alberto Brandolini - Mistakes and Experiments
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:
- - Dave introduces the show and Alberto Brandolini
- - The virtue of trying different things and making mistakes
- - Origins of EventStorming
- - Recipes for EventStorming and interpretations
- - Stories as a way of understanding
- - Alberto's use of sticky notes
- - Boundaries, liberty and constraints
- - Alberto's stories of failure - being misunderstood, dealing with organizations you can't help
- - Alberto's book recommendations
- - Alberto's introduction to Domain-Driven Design
- - Alberto's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - 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