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Wardley Mapping

A growing collection of resources for drawing, reconstructing and exploring Wardley maps.

Three bold, exploded and aligned Wardley Map planes show the online-photo-service landscape, team ownership regions and strategic movements, joined by dashed registration rods.

Topographical intelligence

A Wardley map starts with a user need, shows the components required to meet it and connects the dependencies between them. Each component is then placed according to how evolved it is—from novel and uncertain to commonplace and industrialised. The result is a landscape you can use to discuss movement, constraints and strategic choices.

This toolkit brings together practical resources for drawing maps, reconstructing them from source material and exploring what they reveal.

Wardley-TikZ Resources

A LaTeX toolkit for drawing Wardley maps from structured, reusable source.

View the Wardley-TikZ toolkit →

Writing

Wardley Mapping essays

Essays that examine particular ideas from Wardley Mapping in more detail.

  • Feb 5, 2020 • 11 min read

    Proximal Value

    A closer look at the y-axis of a Wardley Map, and how distance can help us think about purpose, coupling and the boundaries of an assembly.

  • Jan 5, 2020 • 14 min read

    Structural Deepening

    A closer look at Simon Wardley’s mapping framework and the idea of structural deepening as a way to understand invention, dependency and business evolution.