Organizational agility through intersecting business and technology
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…
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…
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…
Find out the 10 questions you should ask as a leader before rolling out changes to your teams or organization.
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
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…