When attempting to modernize an existing system, you need to build up an understanding of how the business works and the complexities of the existing system in order to answer questions such as:

• Where do we start?
• What are the pain points and risks associated with the existing system?
• How can we incrementally modernize the system?

Service Blueprints allow you to

• Help understand the big picture of the system and can serve as a foundation for using other techniques like Value Stream Mapping, EventStorming, etc and other domain-driven analysis methods.
• Help build a shared understanding of the system among the different teams that are responsible for fulfilling a business capability
• Create a repeatable and structured way that is remote friendly and collaborative to understand the complexity of your domain.

What you’ll learn

• What are Service Blueprints?
• How to use them effectively to understand the current state of your system in a hands-on exercise?
• How is it different from BigPicture Eventstorming?
• What are some other methods you could potentially explore with Service Blueprints as a foundation?

Who should attend

• Engineering and Product people who need to learn a new domain quickly
• Developers, Team Leads, and Architects wondering how to modernize their existing system and where to start.
• Developers and Team Leads who want to introduce Visual Modeling techniques to their team to help understand the current state of an existing system.

Prerequisites

• Bring your Laptop. If you can't, no worries, you can pair up with someone in your table who has one.
• This is a session where you'll both use your laptop to review some theory in Figjam and we will use stickies and white paper walls like eventstorming for the breakouts to take advantage of the in-person setup.
• We will use Figjam. There is no need to get a fig jam account, the link I provide will be accessible whether you have an account or not. There is no need to know how to use Figjam, it's quite similar to Miro.
• Bring your curiosity and the thirst to learn a brand new method in trying to understand complexity.

At the end of the session, all of what you have learnt will be available in the fig jam board that you can access when you're back at work trying to collaborate remotely with other folks.

Prerequisites

• Bring your Laptop. If you can't, no worries, you can pair up with someone in your table who has one.
• This is a session where you'll both use your laptop to review some theory in Figjam and we will use stickies and white paper walls like eventstorming for the breakouts to take advantage of the in-person setup.
• We will use Figjam. There is no need to get a fig jam account, the link I provide will be accessible whether you have an account or not. There is no need to know how to use Figjam, it's quite similar to Miro.
• Bring your curiosity and the thirst to learn a brand new method in trying to understand complexity.

At the end of the session, all of what you have learnt will be available in the fig jam board that you can access when you're back at work trying to collaborate remotely with other folks.

About Indu Alagarsamy

Indu enjoys designing distributed systems using event-driven architecture style and domain-driven design principles. She has over 15 years of software development experience working with various industries like healthcare, finance, biotech, and emergency services. She is currently a Principal Engineer at the New York Times. She is passionate about diversity and inclusiveness in the tech industry. When not working, she's an occasional rock climber, who loves to chill in sunny Southern California with her kids and giant puppy.