The Product Development Podcast

An Introduction to Event Storming and Event Modeling | Rafal Maciag (Founder & CEO, ModelingEvolution)

Adam Wakeling Season 1 Episode 8

Rafal Maciag is Founder and CEO of ModelingEvolution, which helps businesses and organisations implement effective, high-quality software solutions. The company's Modellution product provides a collaboration platform for Event Storming and Event Modeling.

In today's episode:

• The foundational concept of Event Storming and how it serves as a catalyst for collaborative transformation

• How to integrate Event Storming and Event Modeling concepts into a business

• Rafal's story of founding a company and lessons learned



Rafal's contact info:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rafalmaciag/

• ModelingEvolution: https://www.modelingevolution.com/



Where to find the host, Adam Wakeling:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/adamjwakeling

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-wakeling-26494b35/



In this episode, we cover:

(00:00) Introduction

(00:56) Putting everyone on the same page

(02:32) What is Event Storming?

(08:40) Examples of 'events'

(12:39) Enabling Customer Journey Mapping

(16:00) How often to conduct Event Storming

(23:48) 'Movies' in Event Storming

(26:17) Who organises everything?

(28:10) Challenges of implementation of Event Storming

(29:54) How organisations are working with ModelingEvolution

(31:24) What Rafal has learned from founding a company

(33:37) Building the right things

(36:14) Final thoughts from Rafal

(38:00) Outro

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