Wardley Maps

Abstract In this post, we share our latest advancements in the integration of Wardley mapping with our Platform Design Toolkit, and more specifically our Platform Opportunity Exploration part of the framework. …

My journey with the Wardley mapping started around March 2018, I serendipitously bumped into a keynote “Situation Normal — Everything Must Change! “ on YouTube, by Simon Wardley. I was fascinated, and attracted towards this very ‘New to Me’ model of visualizing and navigating the waters of business! …

On the different types of situational awareness. I’m a bit of a stuck record when it comes to supply chains, situational awareness and mapping. In order to get myself off the subject, I thought I’d have a bit of a rant about this bugbear of a topic. …

“Mapping is such a good thing, but it really needs time for people to get into it.” Is that really true? In order to let people have valuable insight through Wardley Mapping, do you have to teach them a whole course and hope they keep tagging along with you until…

I originally published the images in this article as two visual twitter threads. Though the slides were made to become “The shortest possible explanation of Wardley Maps,” this article will give them context and gather the slides in a more permanent and findable place. So why use Wardley Maps? Wardley Mapping offers tremendous opportunities…

Wardley-mapping is a great technique to use when it comes to strategy or discussions on where you want to get with your product in a short and in a longer term. Wardley-map helps us having the proper conversations on making good decisions about where to go next. It is great…

In any large organisation people are often building things that already exist somewhere else in the same organisation. They’re not doing this because they’re stupid. They’re re-building what you already have because they simply have no systematic way of knowing what other silos in the organisation are doing. …

It may seem counterintuitive but, to increase your project team’s chances of creating something of value may require reducing budgets, team size and deadline. …