Giving feedback on a Wardley Map is hard. When I’m asked to do it, I of course want to help. But the instant I take a look, my first reaction is to get overwhelmed. All of these words, connections, positionings… feel strange and unfamiliar! How am I supposed to be of any help at all?… Continue reading Giving Feedback on a Wardley Map
Author: Ben Mosior
On The Medical Role of Abortion
This post was tough to write, and I fully expect I got some things wrong. Let me know if you spot an error or a place where I’ve made a mistake. One of the benefits of Wardley Mapping is that making a map invites you to take vague and general concepts and make them more… Continue reading On The Medical Role of Abortion
The Right Question
Early on, I thought there was a paradox in mapping: You can’t know what map to make until you’ve made a bunch of maps! And so the advice became: Just go do a bunch of practice. Maybe you’ll find something insightful then! Well, I don’t like practice for practice’ sake. I am impatient. I’ll spare… Continue reading The Right Question
How to build belief in Wardley Mapping in your organization
Someone recently asked me how they could demonstrate the value of Wardley Mapping quickly to their organization. In truth, there isn’t a single way to do it. Since Wardley Mapping is in stage 2 of evolution, it’s divergent. There is no one way to describe the value. (We’re still exploring and learning!) Different audiences see… Continue reading How to build belief in Wardley Mapping in your organization
What is the purpose of Wardley Mapping? Part 1/5
Why is Wardley Mapping useful? When we work alone, we can only do so much. But when we work together towards a common goal, great things become possible. That’s what organization is all about — 1) gathering people together and 2) focusing their labor. However, if we evaluate today’s organizations on these two functions, we’ll… Continue reading What is the purpose of Wardley Mapping? Part 1/5
Rumelt’s Good Strategy Bad Strategy and Wardley Mapping
Good Strategy Bad Strategy, by Richard Rumelt, is an excellent addition to the stack of books you ought to regularly read. It pairs well with Wardley Mapping, and I recommend both if you want to develop an advantageous, self-taught strategic practice. I’ll spare you my superlatives and allow the book to speak for itself: Having… Continue reading Rumelt’s Good Strategy Bad Strategy and Wardley Mapping
Art vs Science in Wardley Mapping
Wardley Mapping can at times have the appearance of being an exact science. In many ways, however, it’s more of an art. Or perhaps several arts rolled into one. #1: The Art of Modeling The first art is modeling — deciding how to slice a vastly complex situation down into its essential parts. In Wardley… Continue reading Art vs Science in Wardley Mapping
Common Challenges Working with Value Chains
Hello Ben, I am Marco and practicing with Wardley maps. I have 2 questions that I could not answer reading the book and other references. The first is about the image above. Imagine I have a Data visualization feature of my product, for such data visualization I need among other things the Software X that… Continue reading Common Challenges Working with Value Chains
Non-profit IT Systems
Learn Wardley Mapping Live Chat Did you know LearnWardleyMapping.com has a chat function you can use to talk to me directly? If you have questions, or even if you just want to say hi, I’d love for you to click the button in the bottom right corner of the screen and drop me a line.… Continue reading Non-profit IT Systems
Wardley Mapping Facilitation
In Wardley Mapping, if you want to go fast, you go alone. But if you want to go far — and build all that good “shared understanding” stuff we hear about — you need friends. You need to map with others!