In this chapter, we went through the steps of getting started with an application as most projects are started today and contrasted it with the domain-driven design approach to development. We learned about the key focus of domain-driven design, as the communication between the developers and the other parties involved in a project.

The key point to takeaway is the strong focus on getting the core feature set of the application, before focusing on technology choices and other development-related problems that will otherwise subtract resources from the exploration. Another important aspect we learned about is how to gather specification in terms of usage. The key point here is to gain knowledge about how the work is currently achieved and how the application can help besides asking potential users for a specification.

The next chapter focuses deeper on the process of gathering knowledge about the use, expected usability of the application, and on the process of starting to build a language to aid the communication between the team developing the application, build domain experts and developers.