--- title: Bandwidth and Context Mapping | daily.dev description: Context Mapping from Domain-Driven Design visualizes relationships between Bounded Contexts, but the patterns alone don't capture how much communication flows... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/bandwidth-and-context-mapping-hllwfj3cn twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Bandwidth and Context Mapping | daily.dev og:description: Context Mapping from Domain-Driven Design visualizes relationships between Bounded Contexts, but the patterns alone don't capture how much communication flows... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/bandwidth-and-context-mapping-hllwfj3cn og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/HllwFJ3CN.png og:image:alt: Bandwidth and Context Mapping og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Bandwidth and Context Mapping **[Mathias Verraes](https://daily.dev/sources/verraes)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Context Mapping from Domain-Driven Design visualizes relationships between Bounded Contexts, but the patterns alone don't capture how much communication flows between teams. Alberto Brandolini's concept of Bandwidth fills this gap — it represents the capacity for communication between teams, influenced by physical proximity, meeting frequency, seniority, and organizational politics. Low Bandwidth signals higher project risk when changes span Bounded Context boundaries. Representing Bandwidth as thicker or thinner edges on a Context Map makes the map more complete by showing not just structure and relationship character, but also communication capacity. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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