How should I start DDD?

Question

What is the best way to start Domain Driven Design?

What are the recommended resources?

EDIT:

I mean, I'd like to know how to start learning DDD (the same way as to start TDD by reading K. Beck).

Answer 1

There's a really big book available on domain driven design, which was brilliantly abridged and made available as a free download here:

http://www.infoq.com/minibooks/domain-driven-design-quickly

To start "doing" domain driven design, you just need to follow the points in this book. Share a language with the business, create objects that represent something that the business would recognise and so on.

It is more difficult to get in full swing on large existing applications (but not impossible) but if you are writing something new, that's a great opportunity to go at it 100%.

Answer 2

The definitive book on DDD is Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

However its a book that takes some gestation that is best backed up with practice and observing how experienced DDD'ers think.
The site http://domaindrivendesign.org/ has some excellent resources including example projects. I also find it useful to trawl the various open source code repositories such as GitHub, Codeplex and SourceForge for projects that use DDD

In addition there is an excellent discussion forum where a lot of very experienced DDD'ers hang out.

Good luck on your DDD journey, its a long road without a turn!