DDD Europe 2026 - Program

Building Resilience in modelling sessions

DDD Europe - Hands-on Lab

Speakers

Gien Verschatse and Romeu Moura

Gien VerschatseRomeu Moura
Description

(This is a hands-on lab with limited capacity)

A lot of modelling sessions fail because "Hell is other people". You cannot change the "other people". You can only change yourself and how you react and how you improve the resilience of your group. We will do that by modelling together. in the first part we will do a game of "Evil modelling" it will be like a game of werewolf, we will have a modelling session and some participants will sabotage that session. In the next parts, we will cover why that modelling session failed and what can we try to build resistance to those failures.

Prerequisites

Nope

About Gien Verschatse

Gien Verschatse is an experienced consultant and software engineer at Aardling. She specialises in domain modelling and software architecture. She has experience in many domains such as the biotech industry, where she specialised in DNA building. She's fluent in both object-oriented and functional programming, mostly in .NET. As a Domain-Driven Design practitioner, she always looks to bridge the gaps between experts, users, and engineers.

Gien is studying Computer Science at the OU in the Netherlands. As a side interest, she's researching the science of decision-making strategies, to help teams improve how they make technical and organisational decisions. She shares her knowledge by speaking at international conferences.

And when she is not doing all that, you'll find her on the sofa, reading a book and sipping coffee.

About Romeu Moura

Endless conversation — with friends, compilers — on art, equivocacy, Symmathesy, methods, absurdism, dialectic, paradigm jumps, serendipity.