The workshop library

Facilitator playbooks for the sessions that keep earning their place: what each workshop is for, who to invite, how to run it, and what goes wrong. Each published playbook comes with a printable one-page summary for the wall and a full guide for your tablet.

Event Storming a Domain

The widest zoom, and Brandolini's own entry point to Event Storming. Stand a whole business (or a whole product) in front of one wall with everyone who touches it. The output isn't a design or a plan; it's one picture that every department recognises, and a shortlist of the places worth digging into next.

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Event Storming a Process

The default Event Storming session and the one you'll run most often. One process, one wall, everyone who touches it in the room, three hours. You leave with a precise shared model of the flow and a short list of the questions it raised. Where Big Picture looks for shape across a whole domain, Process Level looks for precision within one flow.

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Example Mapping

A pattern for breaking a user story into rules and concrete examples in twenty-five minutes, so the team knows whether it's ready to build before the sprint starts. Facilitator's playbook, failure modes, and what to do with the cards afterwards.

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Impact Mapping

A pattern for tracing a business goal through the people whose behaviour has to change, through the changes themselves, to the things you might build — so the team can tell the difference between work that moves the number and work that just feels productive.

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On the way

  • Prioritisation (18 Jun 2026)
  • Event Storming an Architecture (25 Jun 2026)
  • C4 Modelling (2 Jul 2026)
  • DDD Modelling (9 Jul 2026)
  • Decision Tables (16 Jul 2026)
  • Retrospectives (23 Jul 2026)
  • Wardley Mapping (6 Aug 2026)
  • Which Workshop When (27 Aug 2026)
  • Blameless Post-Mortems (3 Sep 2026)
  • Ensemble Programming (10 Sep 2026)
  • Cynefin Sensemaking (17 Sep 2026)
  • Threat Modelling (24 Sep 2026)
  • The Planning Onion (1 Oct 2026)
  • Pre-Mortem (15 Oct 2026)
  • Forecasting Without Estimates (22 Oct 2026)
  • Value Stream Mapping (29 Oct 2026)
  • Building a Ubiquitous Language (5 Nov 2026)
  • Dependency Mapping (12 Nov 2026)
  • Customer Discovery Interviews (19 Nov 2026)
  • Designing a Structured Interview (3 Dec 2026)
  • Chartering a Community of Practice (10 Dec 2026)
  • Story Splitting (17 Dec 2026)
  • Risk Storming (7 Jan 2027)
  • Lean Coffee (14 Jan 2027)
  • Futurespective (21 Jan 2027)
  • Delegation Poker (28 Jan 2027)
  • Team Self-Selection (4 Feb 2027)
  • OKR Setting (11 Feb 2027)
  • Design Sprint (18 Feb 2027)

Not sure which session fits the problem in front of you? The technique-to-story map lives on the techniques page.