This article presents the knowledge and experience acquired trough the process of establishing MDD practices within a small Italian company. Special attention has been devoted to project constraints, perceived risks, and relative mitigation strategies. Moreover the article evaluates how the introduction of the MDD approach was received by different stakeholders. In particular a structured questionnaire was the instrument used to reveal and collect the perceptions by different roles involved in the MDD adoption process. The case study considered development of applications conforming to a prescriptive architectural framework, which addresses a complex multi-tier architecture; the solution aims at describing component composition while avoiding both repeating tasks and writing awkward configurations.