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Tweetstorm inbound: 100 Reasons to Learn Wardley Mapping. // @swardleyPermalink On twitter.com
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h/t @mwfogleman for the suggestion!Permalink On twitter.com
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#1 Improve your chances of success in business by — get this — understanding business strategy.Permalink On twitter.com
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#2 Avoid disaster and reduce personal/financial risk by learning how to _anticipate_ change.Permalink On twitter.com
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#3 Cultivate agency by learning to read the landscape and choosing moves deliberately.Permalink On twitter.com
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#4 Learn how to cultivate opportunities for innovation (whatever that means to you).Permalink On twitter.com
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#5 Leverage your market position in order to increase the costs of competitor movement.Permalink On twitter.com
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#6 Learn how to design your organization for continuous growth.Permalink On twitter.com
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#7 Learn how to make informed purchasing decisions based on external vendor indicators.Permalink On twitter.com
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#8 Learn how to perform a competitive analysis.Permalink On twitter.com
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#9 Discover the full(er) extent of the work involved in building a given solution.Permalink On twitter.com
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#10 Gain a satisfying ability to determine whether an idea is worth pursuing... and waste less time on foolhardy pursuits.Permalink On twitter.com
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#11 Learn when to make the tough decision to discontinue or abandon work.Permalink On twitter.com
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#12 Make cutting your losses easier to do.Permalink On twitter.com
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#13 Encounter fewer deadly surprises during execution, significantly increasing your probability of success.Permalink On twitter.com
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#14 Know with certainty whether a given idea or task will contribute to your progress.Permalink On twitter.com
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#15 Work on the real problems... not the problem of figuring out what the real problems are.Permalink On twitter.com
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#16 Wrangle a failing project back on track.Permalink On twitter.com
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#17 Shift from a state of ignorance to _situational awareness_... so you can be _more purposeful_.Permalink On twitter.com
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#18 Inject clarity into the chaos of project work.Permalink On twitter.com
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#19 Kill the lost causes.Permalink On twitter.com
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#20 Know how to approach each aspect of the work that must happen.Permalink On twitter.com
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#21 Understand when to build and when to buy.Permalink On twitter.com
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#22 Understand when to explore (iterate) and when to plan everything out ahead.Permalink On twitter.com
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#23 Navigate life with deliberate intention.Permalink On twitter.com
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#24 Make well-reasoned decisions.Permalink On twitter.com
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#25 Develop an _intuition_ for strategy.Permalink On twitter.com
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#26 Leverage shiny new tech when it makes sense and for specific purposes, instead of just copying everyone else.Permalink On twitter.com
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#27 Understand the hidden patterns and workings of the world.Permalink On twitter.com
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#28 Methodically identify opportunities few others will independently imagine.Permalink On twitter.com
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#29 Cultivate excess optionality. You'll discard many good options because you can...Permalink On twitter.com
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#30 By mapping, you elevate the potential of those around you.Permalink On twitter.com
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#31 Learn to embrace uncertainty; become comfortable with the unknown. Remember, if this idea doesn't work, you can methodically find more...Permalink On twitter.com
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#32 Improve the quality of decisions made under stress and uncertainty.Permalink On twitter.com
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#33 Learn to apply a mindset appropriate for each circumstance.Permalink On twitter.com
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#34 Learn about doctrine, boy howdy. First of all, it exists. Second of all, you can write your own.Permalink On twitter.com
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#35 Learn how to benchmark your approach to the rest of the world, and THEN how to make exceptions appropriate for your context.Permalink On twitter.com
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#36 Compose MVP solutions quickly and efficiently (clients will love you).Permalink On twitter.com
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#37 Avoid inane startups.Permalink On twitter.com
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#38 Related: Sniff out BS and invest wisely.Permalink On twitter.com
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#39 Design entire businesses around your spontaneous ideas using the back of a napkin.Permalink On twitter.com
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#40 Share your napkins with others. They'll be able to show you where you're wrong.Permalink On twitter.com
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#41 Refocus business on serving real people instead of worshipping the tech machine.Permalink On twitter.com
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#42 Change the trajectory of your career. // @kelseyhightowerPermalink On twitter.com
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#43 Get a different job.Permalink On twitter.com
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#44 Understand abstract problems. Wardley Mapping doesn't care how weird you get.Permalink On twitter.com
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#45 Acknowledge your attack surface. Market, security, whatever.Permalink On twitter.com
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#46 Stop pretending your complex system is simple. Acknowledge reality.Permalink On twitter.com
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#47 Know where the secret sauce is, and where it _isn't_.Permalink On twitter.com
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#48 Don't become a company that has to write and maintain software until you ABSOLUTELY need to. (Ok that one was a little specific, but it still pains me every time I think about it. 😜)Permalink On twitter.com
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#49 Dominate at hackathons or anywhere else rapid idea prototyping needs to happen. Or at least avoid being the completely disorganized group!Permalink On twitter.com
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#50 Identify your constraints. Then you can start thinking about whether to blow them up, circumvent them, or just make them work for you.Permalink On twitter.com
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#51 Find key points of leverage in impossibly big systems.Permalink On twitter.com
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#52 Run smooth gatherings and events.Permalink On twitter.com
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#53 Serve the underserved, and help them gain asymmetrical advantage.Permalink On twitter.com
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#54 Destroy greed by wrecking exploitative business models.Permalink On twitter.com
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#55 When selling your ideas, avoid using concepts your users don't care about.Permalink On twitter.com
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#57 Learn to ignore hot air (industry FUD, pointless technology feuds, etc.).Permalink On twitter.com
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#58 Know when to team up instead of competing, all while preventing your lunch from being eaten.Permalink On twitter.com
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#59 Learn how to pivot by taking stock of the knowledge and capabilities you _already_ have.Permalink On twitter.com
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#60 Become comfortable dodging and weaving in existential territory. Few will follow.Permalink On twitter.com
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#61 Learn when to be concerned by failure and when to embrace it.Permalink On twitter.com
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#62 Learn when to use the latest tech and when to be an old fart about it.Permalink On twitter.com
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#63 Know the cost of commitment by weighing future inertia against current flexibilities.Permalink On twitter.com
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#64 Make sense of weak signals in the market... "Why did they do it _that_ way?"Permalink On twitter.com
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#65 Stop wasting your short time on this earth on pointless efforts that don't contribute to the system you're in. (Hey now!)Permalink On twitter.com
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#66 Translate strategy across industries and generations to realize its relevance to the here and now.Permalink On twitter.com
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#67 Manage delegated and outsourced work well by knowing what conversations to have and what to expect.Permalink On twitter.com
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#68 Experience the joy of spending less time worrying about how to make decisions. You'll be busy making them.Permalink On twitter.com
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#69 Avoid methodology religious wars through universal respect and awareness of context-specificity.Permalink On twitter.com
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#70 Build skill and intuition that is useful in any purposeful context.Permalink On twitter.com
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#71 Win more than you lose. Winning is fun.On twitter.com
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#72 Imposters, enjoy a moment of feeling competent by acknowledging the many things you do actually know. (Then keep working on the specific ones you don't.)Permalink On twitter.com
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#73 Decentralize decision-making. If they've made a map, you know they at least have a rationale (which is more than you can say about the average bear).Permalink On twitter.com
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#74 Leverage imperfect information. The map doesn't care that you're wrong, only that you're using it to document your assumptions along the way.Permalink On twitter.com
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#75 Develop ethical plays when the pressure is to do the opposite. You'll be able to find a way.Permalink On twitter.com
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#76 Tear apart legacy systems and make conceptual sense of them.Permalink On twitter.com
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#77 Recognize the holes in your ability to deliver on promises to your users.Permalink On twitter.com
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#78 Know which dependencies you can control, which you can influence, and which ones you'll just have to accept as-is.Permalink On twitter.com
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#79 Deploy and use your existing time and efforts more effectively, freeing up $$$.Permalink On twitter.com
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#80 Turn a map into words to propose action that makes an excessive amount of sense (or is at least difficult to refute).Permalink On twitter.com
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#81 Create space for the conversations that _really_ need to happen.Permalink On twitter.com
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#82 Give people something to point at during those conversations. No surprise here, but it'll help them focus.Permalink On twitter.com
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#83 By taking EVEN THE FIRST STEP towards learning to map, you discover IMPORTANT STUFF about your situation that will change how and what you think! (I admit, this probably should have been #1.)Permalink On twitter.com
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#84 The kernels of truth in your map help you fake it less or at least better than everyone else.Permalink On twitter.com
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#85 Get unstuck! There's always more mapping to do, and you'll be inspired by what you find.Permalink On twitter.com
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#86 Communicate more effectively through the language learned by building a map together.Permalink On twitter.com
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#87 Learn more effectively, together. Your shared language, developed alongside a map on the wall, embraces visual, kinesthetic, and auditory learning styles.Permalink On twitter.com
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#88 Uncover the hidden logic behind seemingly arbitrary decisions by service providers. (And whether there is any to be had!)Permalink On twitter.com
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#89 Scale a company with less pain than most experience.Permalink On twitter.com
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#90 Recognize sinking ships _before_ they go under.Permalink On twitter.com
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#91 Steer others away from deadly mistakes.Permalink On twitter.com
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#92 Have healthier conflict with clients by agreeing on an artifact (the map). "You didn't deliver what you promised..." turns into "Our needs changed..."Permalink On twitter.com
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#93 Discover the expertise that's missing from your organization, where to find it, and how to bring it in.Permalink On twitter.com
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#94 Understand the territory borders... where to play, where to fish for opportunities, and where to stay the heck away from.Permalink On twitter.com
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#95 Understand what's truly unique about you or your organization, as well as whether that uniqueness is beneficial or harmful to your goals.Permalink On twitter.com
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#96 Contribute more meaningfully to open source projects. You'll be able to tell which things are holding projects back and where to best use your attention, since you're volunteering it.Permalink On twitter.com
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#97 Plan for market scenarios to better respond _if_ and _when_ they occur.Permalink On twitter.com
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#98 Provide an outlet to hear out, learn from, and even prototype wild ideas with relative safety.Permalink On twitter.com
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#99 Get to the essence of things. Talk directly about _the thing_ instead of meandering endlessly _around_ the thing.Permalink On twitter.com
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#100 Win the impossible battles, especially by resolving them peacefully.Permalink On twitter.com
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If you stuck with me, boy howdy are you neat. If you'd like more musings on Wardley Mapping, visit me at hiredthought.com.Permalink On twitter.com
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And the @lefep has an online course! wardleymaps.com/Permalink On twitter.com
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Special thanks to @mwfogleman who encouraged me to do this in the first place, and helped me follow through by Hostwriting and cheering me on! You can learn more about him at hostwriting.comPermalink On twitter.com