About Wardley Maps for Business Community

Wardley Maps for Business (WMfB) started as a event in September 2022. Now is turning into a community.

The problem we see

  1. The adoption of Wardley Mapping in the professional space is hard due to lack of mechanisms or enablers for them: framework, maturity model, classified trainings. Wardley Mapping is an emergent practice and it needs to evolve.
  2. The individual efforts done to elevate the “Wardley Mapping” brand are fine, but they are not enough. The recognition is spread but not capture by an organization / entity. The example of branding can be extended to other aspects as use cases, how to improve adoption, tools.
  3. The current communities focuses on the solo-mapper that is willing to map in private space and not to expose itself into the professional space.

Purpose

  • WMfB is a professional space for people working as consultants and professionals using Wardley Mapping services as part of their portfolio.
  • It’s a auto-regulated organization: we are defining principles and mechanisms to define consensus about where the community should go.
  • Focus on specific challenges that consultants and professionals face when mapping in organizations.
  • Connect with each other, we find ways to collaborate and expand our impact in the professional space.
  • Advocacy and Promotion of Wardley Mapping.

Vision

The seed of this event resides in the combination of the Wardley Maps main concepts (black), combined with some areas of the business (blue). With that vision, we created this space to combine people from business and mappers that have conversations around the same table.

Wardley Mapping is an emergent practice

And this creates some problems when you are working with it.

Who are we?

  • We are people that expose ourselves in the professional space using Wardley Mapping as one of the tools of our toolbox.
  • We recognize the issues that mapping has.
  • And we believe in the cooperation to move forward towards a better future.

We have a wide range of interests and it’s great

We are a group with diverse purposes in a common space.

  • It enable better understanding of the context.
  • Accelerates the learning about how the competitive market is moving on.

How are we organizing the community?

We have several ideas,