New Case Study! Just-in-time Co-development of Business Process and Software

by Tony Canty, CIO, Labatt Food Services

Texas-based Labatt Food Services (10th largest food distribution service in the US) had a problem. Every fall, hundreds of schools would start to stock their cafeterias, making large, unpredictable orders and causing chaos in Labatt’s inventories.

The "School Start" application, developed with a DDD process, was a catalyst to over $1 million dollar operational savings in its first year of existence. In its first 3 years of use, the system has reduced inventory investment by over $8 million dollars while reducing out-of-stock items on orders by 50%, despite a 15% increase in sales.

Furthermore, this application and an entirely new business process were developed in parallel and rolled out smoothly during the critical period preceding school start!

Effective Aggregate Design by Vaughn Vernon
Aggregates are one of the more challenging aspects of tactical modeling. In this three-part series, Vaughn Vernon walks through some common design pitfalls, discusses the pros and cons of various aggregate modeling choices, and provides rules of thumb to guide modeling of aggregates, spelling out the current consensus view of DDD leaders on the style of aggregates that help place development on a more solid footing.

DDD Summit 2011
Walking at the seaside In May a handful of the top leaders and innovators in DDD met up for three days to discuss the state of DDD and where it is going. Read about what happened and the community efforts that we hope will come out of it.

DDD Exchange 2011
Our 3rd annual DDD Exchange, a one-day conference in London dedicated to DDD, was a big success.

Highlighted Speakers:

  • Greg Young on a more conceptual approach to tests
  • Jim Webber on REST in DDD
  • Eric Evans on ways to shift toward DDD when you have a lot of legacy.
  • And more...



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    Greg Young at NDC2010 "7 Reasons DDD Projects #FAIL"


    Many people try applying Domain Driven Design and fail miserably. This presentation looks at seven top reasons for failure and discusses how to avoid them.

    Eric Evans: Folding Design into an Agile Process
    The talk "Folding Design into an Agile Process" was originally given by Eric Evans at QCon London 2010. We recorded it at a meeting of DDD-NYC SIG in May of 2010, shortly after the conference.

    Best-kept Secret in DDD Community: DDD Immersion
    Paul Rayner of virtual-genius.com interviews Eric Evans about DDD Immersion Classes. They discuss the contents, philosophy, the origins of the class and Paul's own experience of attending it in NYC.

    Interview with Dan North and Liz Keogh: BDD+DDD
    Interview with Dan North and Liz Keogh on BBB+DDDDan North and Liz Keogh, the people behind Behavior-Driven Development, spoke about how BDD complements DDD with Vladimir Gitlevich at OOPSLA 2007.

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