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Navigating Product Development with Wardley Mapping

Posted on November 1, 2022November 17, 2022 by Cory Foy

A talk from the November 2022 AgileRTP meetup covering product development with Wardley Mapping. Your browser does not support the video tag. And if you’d prefer, you can download a PDF of the slides. Key links from the video: My free Wardley Map videos and resources Simon’s Book The Wardley Map wiki The Wardley Map…

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A title slide with the text "Saving your company" in big letters and "with Wardley Maps" in smaller text. The background image is a set of rescuers working with ropes.

MapCamp 2020: Saving Your Business With Wardley Maps

Posted on July 30, 2020August 4, 2020 by Cory Foy

On July 29th, 2020, I had the privilege of presenting at Map Camp Germany 2020. My talk was entitled “Saving Your Business With Wardley Maps” and goes through a fictional case study based on real-world events with my clients in navigating strategic threats and situational awareness to create winning gameplays. A PDF of my slides…

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It’s Time to Act – a Response to Marc Andreessen

Posted on April 19, 2020April 20, 2020 by Cory Foy

As promised, I’m rereading the “Build” essay by Marc Andreessen with fresh eyes. Somewhat fresh eyes since I woke up at 0430 thinking about it, but I have some tea and I’m ready to go. Let’s start from the beginning. Every Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings. This monumental…

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Transformation is a multi-dimensional journey. We start with our current way of working, discover ways to adopt the practices, and then executing in the new way

10 Questions Leaders Should Ask When Introducing Change

Posted on February 21, 2020February 21, 2020 by Cory Foy

Find out the 10 questions you should ask as a leader before rolling out changes to your teams or organization.

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Defending Commoditization: Using Wardley Maps to Map Gameplays and Strategies to Stay Ahead in Your Market

Posted on November 7, 2019November 9, 2019 by Cory Foy

In this talk from Lean Agile KC 2019 Cory Foy introduces a way to use Wardley Maps to evaluate your market strategies to defend against being eaten by competitors and partners

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Aligning Your Strategy with the Purpose-Based Alignment Model

Posted on March 9, 2018 by Cory Foy

Nearly my entire adult life I’ve traveled in some form or another. In a band you drive on tour, and even when I was dating my wife I would drive from Florida to Virginia nearly every other weekend. So when it comes to traveling I have a very experienced sense of what it’s going to…

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Mapping Your Way To Success

Posted on March 5, 2018April 12, 2018 by Cory Foy

Ever seen an island in a lake in an island in a lake? This unusual combination exists, and you can go check it out. I included a map above for you to find it. Go ahead, I’ll wait. Did you find it? Chances are, the “map” I gave you wasn’t very useful. It showed the…

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Building Trust Through Cadenced Retrospectives

Posted on October 10, 2017October 10, 2017 by Cory Foy

One of the hallmarks of effective teams is trust. This applies not just to the interpersonal relationships between team members, but also to the relationship the team itself has to other teams and the rest of the organization – especially management. In a low trust environment, any attempt to bring about new changes, especially from…

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Waterfall, Agile and Lean (Oh My!)

Posted on August 29, 2017August 30, 2017 by Cory Foy

For many people, the word “Waterfall” causes a visceral reaction – especially in the context of projects and organizations. Unfortunately, I’m starting to come across more places where “Agile” causes the same reaction of disgust and fear. The fundamental problem is that we’ve let bad management hide behind methodology and frameworks. At their core, Waterfall,…

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Incremental versus Iterative: The Church Analogy

Posted on April 21, 2017 by Cory Foy

Along the path towards agility inevitably one comes across the terms iterative and incremental. I have seen many cases where the terms are used interchangeably, even though the mindset behind them is pretty different. To understand how, let’s introduce Roberta and the Church Analogy. Roberta (in our analogy) is the lead pastor for a rapidly…

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