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Data Oriented Design is more beginner friendly. Because it does not deal with people and business but only with purity of data modelling.

When I was young, my first step in a new project was painting the Entity Relationship Model. That gave me the foundation for everything else.

Nowadays, I try to understand the problems and the domain, work on capabilities and how to group/box them before I start doing data models.

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I like the content of your comment. Everyone who has experience recognizes that our love of data and programming often gets sideswiped by business needs. I think though this article tries to say that if we focus on gathering data needs from the beginning, it might make the business needs conversation moot

I completely agree with that. I have problems that after a DDD phase we have a suitable entity model and afterwards conversations with business and UX are very often very interesting.

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