Domain-Driven Design Community

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!

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.