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The Wardley Mapping Canvas

October 13, 2018October 14, 2018No Comments

The Wardley Mapping Canvas provides just the right amount of visual structure to help mapping practitioners make quick progress and have a better learning experience while building their first maps. The canvas has been added to the official RealtimeBoard template library (yay!). However, at Map Camp 2018, someone very helpful (whoever you are, please say hello so … Continue reading The Wardley Mapping Canvas

So you want to build a website

September 10, 2018September 21, 2018No Comments

Every once in a while, I plan to share something I call a solution blueprint — a way to fulfill a particular business need that I think is universal enough to be offered as general advice for the current moment in time. Something to consider as a safe default. That doesn’t mean there won’t be … Continue reading So you want to build a website

Intro to Wardley Mapping

September 1, 2018September 30, 20181 Comment

A hard truth of decision-making is that complete information will never be available. We use tools, techniques, shorthands, and experience-laden aphorisms to fill in the gaps, but they remain inadequate. Our individual coping mechanisms are bespoke, weird, and inconsistent. We struggle with self-contradiction over time. Decisions made tomorrow will unfold differently than those made today, … Continue reading Intro to Wardley Mapping

Deconstructing Ideas

June 9, 2018September 21, 2018No Comments

Everything I’m Hoping Is in Your Elevator Pitch When I attend a pitch event, I sit with a notebook in my lap and sketch out a quick value chain of each product or solution while it is being described. At the end of each pitch, I write where I would focus first, were I to begin … Continue reading Deconstructing Ideas

The Five Focusing Steps for Human Systems

February 27, 2018September 21, 2018No Comments

I don’t normally read textbooks just for fun. Ok, that’s not true. I wouldn’t normally read this textbook just for fun. It is, however, excellent reference material and worth a skim every once in a while. The textbook is Bill Dettmer’s The Logical Thinking Process, which aims to articulate and standardize the practices described by … Continue reading The Five Focusing Steps for Human Systems

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