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Will Larson
@lethain.com

Finally took some time over past month to learn Wardley mapping. Still a technique I’ve rarely seen “in real life”, but glad that @mipsytipsy.bsky.social mentioned it a few times online in ~2018 and I’ve finally caught up 😂 lethain.com/learning-war...

lethain.comRough notes on learning Wardley Mapping.In my ongoing efforts to draft a book on engineering strategy, I’ve finally reached the point where I need to transition “Wardley Mapping” from a topic to consider including into a topic that I either...

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Will Larson
@lethain.com

I don’t think “not seeing IRL” is particularly remarkable fwiw, it remains surprisingly rare to see any documented strategy of any kind in any company. (Even rarer for the strategy to make much sense.)

Tolis Christomanos
@christomanos.com

The first rule of Wardley Mapping is: you do not talk about Wardley Mapping. When I do a Wardley Map I never spend time explaining what a Wardley Map is. I just draw and get people to collaborate with me. In the end we’ve done a map without explaining anything about Wardley Mapping

Will Larson
@lethain.com

Absolutely, I think only a subset of strategy practitioners care about their strategy working (as opposed to compliance with the strategy, whether or not it works), which is a hard starting place for any technique ime!

Jacob Matson
@matsonj.com

as long as you don't evaluate if it actually works, you can lean on "true [x] has never been tried". I will only speak for myself but its easier to reject failure in that in context 🙃

bailey? 🏳️‍🌈 🇿🇦
@bailz.bsky.social

I've tried to understand how I could use it a few times before but never had the right use case for it, so I'm looking forward to going through your article and examples on it, and maybe I need to try a few similar ones before I eventually "get" it