Strategic DDD

Strategic DDD answers what to build and where to invest — before tactical DDD answers how to model it.

When to Activate

• Decomposing a monolith into services
• Deciding which bounded contexts need rich domain models (DDD) vs. simple CRUD
• Designing how two services communicate (sync vs. async, ACL vs. conformist)
• Planning a new product area: should we build this or buy it?
• Running Event Storming to discover domain boundaries
• Naming teams and code ownership boundaries

Step-by-Step Discovery Process

Use this sequence when starting strategic DDD on a codebase or new product area: