TLDR; we talk about the business model canvas, how the Income Statements corresponds to parts of it, how both correspond to and can be shown on a Wardley Map. Based on Dr. Alistair Moore’s presenta...
Wardley Maps—an Illustration from Gerstner’s book —Part 2
The second loop around the Strategy Cycle is in chapters 8-10 of Lou Gerstner’s book, “Who Says Elephants can’t Dance,” in which he summarises his plan in the following sentence: “I turned my a...
Adapting to PARA using GitLab
It’s almost 2 months since I started walking through Tiago Forte‘s series on P.A.R.A Method (Projects. Areas. Resources. Archives) and implementing it. I’ve got Ben Mosior and Tasshin Fogleman to t...
Wardley Maps in drawio
I recently came across drawio, and I’ve been using it to make Wardley Maps. In addition to the online version, there’s also a desktop version that you can download and use. It doesn’t require me t...
Wardley Maps—an Illustration from Gerstner’s book
I’ll be mapping a few important chapters of Lou Gerstner’s book, Who Says Elephants can’t Dance (amazon affiliate link)1, as illustrating Wardley Mappings. Not that Gerstner draws maps for us but h...
Moving Blog From Medium
I’ve just moved my blog from Medium to a Wordpress site. The posts for 2018 that I first wrote on Medium, I’ve imported them here too. As for the more older posts, these are generic enough fo...
Wardley Map — Cognitive Hierarchy
What I’ve found helpful in maintaining my ardor as I get to grips with complex topics has been a Wardley Map of a “Cognitive Hierarchy,” a hierarchy I came across a while ago1. Even though it’s exp...
Learning to Map — Cloud IDEs — fast time to first line of code
Just as it’s now the norm for applications and systems to run on public cloud infrastructure and platforms, perhaps so too should be the norm for Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) and the ...
At the LJC openjdk hackday
One way to relax, after a major project release, or as near to it as to allow a deep breath, is to spend some time with others setting up, testing, and working on something at a Hackday. “What?” I ...
Long articles – how come?
At times, what we write ends up being longer than we thought, and we’re naturally uneasy that the length of it will dissuade our fellow readers from proceeding. In my previous entries is one senten...