Domain-driven-design (DDD) pitfalls

Question

I am quite new with DDD and would like to know about any pitfalls you might want to share. I will summarize it later for more newbies to read :)

Thanks

Summary s

Answer 1

Not using bounded contexts enough. It's toward the back of the the big blue book but Eric Evans has gone on record as saying that he believes that bounded contexts and ubiquitous language are THE most important concepts.

Similarly, people tend to focus too much on the patterns. Those aren't the meat of DDD.

Also, if you do not have a lot of access to domain experts you are probably not doing DDD, at best you are DDDish.

More concretely, if you end up with many-to-many relationships, you've probably designed something wrong and need to re-evaluate your aggregate roots/contexts