Appendix

The History of Domain Storytelling

In the early 1990s, a group of computer scientists1 at the University of Hamburg began to research techniques for business software development. They realized that it was important for developers to understand the tasks, workflows, and domain language of the future users. For joint workshops, the developers required techniques that would support equal cooperation between the various participants. The graphical means of representation available at that time, such as flow charts and UML diagrams, proved to be unsuitable. Those reinforced the model monopoly of the computer scientists in the sense of Stein Bråten [Bråten 1973].

1. Including Christiane Floyd, Heinz Züllighoven, and Ingrid Wetzel (later ...

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