Breaking Down Silos and Improving Knowledge Sharing with Event Modeling

Event modeling is a collaborative workshop that uses simple tools to model business processes with the primary goal of sharing knowledge effectively.

The process starts by defining domain business events over a timeline. As the session progresses, new concepts such as commands, external systems, and actors are added to the model, improving its accuracy and comprehensiveness. Each Event modeling session has a defined scope that aims to explore a specific business process of interest to the group.

In traditional workshops, conversations happen sequentially, but with Event Modeling, all discussions happen simultaneously.

This way, any conflicts or discontinuities in any part of the domain can be sorted out, and everyone involved is present and engaged. Transparency is key to breaking down information silos and improving the accuracy of the model.

It’s important to note that event modeling is an adaptable, valuable technique in both technical and business areas.

Although this method can lead to a shared understanding of the domain by all team members, it’s only sometimes guaranteed. Therefore, starting with behavioral modeling can be a good approach. Still, it might be necessary to break down behaviors into tasks and link them…