Domain-Driven Design with Java - A Practitioner’s Guide

Chapter 1: The Rationale for Domain-Driven Design

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

According to the Project Management Institute’s (PMI’s) Pulse of the Profession report published in February 2020, only 77% of all projects meet their intended goals—and even this is true only in the most mature organizations. For less mature organizations, this number falls to just 56%; that is, approximately one in every two projects does not meet its intended goals. Furthermore, approximately one in every five projects is declared an outright failure. At the same time, we also seem to be embarking on our most ambitious and complex projects.

In this chapter, we will examine the ...