# Eric Evans in the house

DevFeed: [Eric Evans in the house](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/eric-evans-in-the-house-31992.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://tech.finn.no2015/03/10/eric-evans-in-the-house/>)

Author: Nicolai Høge

Published: 2015-03-10T14:37:49Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Finn.no](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/finn-no.md>)

Topics: [Domain-driven design (DDD)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/domain-driven-design.md>), [Architecture & Design](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/architecture-design.md>), [Enterprise Architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/enterprise-architecture.md>)

Tags: [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [course](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/course.md>), [ddd](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ddd.md>), [domain-driven-design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/domain-driven-design.md>), [enterprise-architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/enterprise-architecture.md>), [workshop](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/workshop.md>)

## AI overview

FINN.no invited Eric Evans for a week of strategic Domain-Driven Design courses, workshops, and a presentation. The article describes the organization's effort to move from a monolith toward a more flexible and scalable architecture.

## Source excerpt

In our continuing quest to break up our old monolith and create a more flexible and scalable architecture, we have realized that we need to look at some new tools and methods. One of the more promising approaches was Domain Driven Design, a term coined by Eric Evans in his Big Blue Book Quite a few people in FINN has read (at least parts of) the Domain-Driven Design book, and we did some preliminary efforts to map our domains and look at our bounded contexts. We quickly realized that this was a very complex exercise, even with highly motivated tech and product people present. We figured we needed some help to get us on the right track. If you need help and information about DDD, why not get it straight from the horse's mouth? So we got Eric Evans to visit us for a week at the end of February. We needed to make the most of our time with Eric, so we set up a rather extensive agenda: Day Subject Attending Monday Strategic Domain Driven Design Course FINNs CTO, our functional product directors, the members of our enterprise architecture group including our Chief Enterprise Architect, several key developers and a couple of our international friends from Schibsted Classified Media Tuesday Strategic Domain Driven Design Course cont'd Same as Monday Wednesday Workshop: Ad concept and our miscellaneous vertical Chief Enterprise architect, EA group, Functional Product Director, Product Owner, Lead Developers Thursday Workshop: Job vertical and company profile Chief Enterprise architect, EA group, Functional Product Director, Product Owner, Lead Developers Friday Presentation for everyone in FINN.no, plus workshop: Communications Chief Enterprise architect, EA group, Functional Product Director, Product Owner, Lead Developers The course on Monday and Tuesday was extremely helpful in getting everyone up to speed on the terms and method of strategic domain driven design. The workshops the rest of the week focused on understanding the challenges involved in each area, and trying