Achieving your business goals in this increasingly fast-changing (digital) market is more difficult and takes longer than before. Where IT was an accelerator a few years ago, it now seems to be more of an obstacle to quickly responding to market opportunities.
If you want to quickly implement a desired change in your business process, you will be tired of complex, often technical explanations from your IT department as to why something cannot be done or seems to need to be done differently. Legacy systems are often used as an excuse. Too many functionalities are linked to each other, so that adjusting one functionality immediately affects other functionality. And you don't want that. For example, if marketing wants to change the name of a product on the website, you don't want the logistics department to be unable to find it in the system because the ID has been changed. In other words, you don't want a change within your domain to lead to problems in another domain.
Less agile
With this situation, adjustments become costly and changes take too long to implement. Your time-to-market increases and your Cost of Delay poses a greater risk. Your agility decreases instead of increasing.
DDD is the solution
With Domain Driven Design, you tackle exactly these problems. Because, if all you have is a hammer, every solution looks like a nail. And therein lies the heart of DDD: in your own business domain, you have different requirements, use different terms and even possibly move in a different direction than other business domains.
By organising IT solutions or applications more on the basis of your business process, you achieve less coupling between systems and applications, allowing you to make adjustments to your business process quickly and easily. You can evolve autonomously as a 'domain', without bothering your colleague from the other domain.
Speed of action increases
The business domains are (again) at the wheel. An additional advantage of the DDD methodology is that, together with IT, you come up with the solutions that exactly meet your needs. And while you are doing this, you also develop a so-called 'ubiquitous language' together, i.e. you talk about the same thing. This seems like a small thing, but when you understand each other directly in communication, speaking the same language, the speed of action in your organisation increases by a factor of 3.
Getting started!
Want to learn more about Domain Driven Design? Then our basic DDD training is the perfect starting point. You will learn more about the advantages of Domain Driven Design and its applicability. We offer a bit of theory, but above all many practical tips and tricks to get started quickly in your organisation.
Already enthusiastic and understand the basics of DDD? Then follow the Next Level DDD training course. Here, we dive deeper into the subject matter.
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