Wardley Mapping Maturity

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Wardley Mapping Team
Maturity

Chris McDermott
@chrisvmcd
Agile Coach

diffusion of innovation
Innovators
2.5%
Early
Adopters
13.5%
Early
Majority
34%
Late
Majority
34%
Laggards
16%

Why
How
What

premium mediocre!

premium mediocre:
Mediocre with just an irrelevant touch of premium, not
enough to ruin the delicious essential mediocrity
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/08/17/the-premium-mediocre-life-of-maya-millennial/

inattentional blindness:
lack of attention that is not associated with any vision
defects or deficits ... the event in which an individual fails
to perceive an unexpected stimulus that is in plain sight.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inattentional_blindness

situational awareness:
concerned with understanding of the environment critical
to decision-makers in complex, dynamic areas
involves being aware of what is happening in the vicinity
to understand how information, events, and one's own
actions will impact goals and objectives, both immediately
and in the near future
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situation_awareness

help…
how do I get to Odeon Covent Garden from here?

Well…
• Walk north-west on Southampton St towards Maiden
• After roughly 2 mins…Turn right towards James St
• Walk for 75 feet…Turn left onto James St (Take the stairs)
• About .1 of a mile down the road…Turn right onto Long Acre
• …

can we create a map, of our context that shows
our ability to deliver against a goal?

Idea
Meaning
Personality
Technology
History
Time
Relationship
Social
Economic
Social
Cultural

Idea
Meaning
Personality
Technology
History
Time
Relationship
Social
Economic
Symbolic
Cultural

Wardley Maps
https://medium.com/wardleymaps

So what about team maturity?

Purpose
• the user need
• product
• the project
• the mission
• ...

Landscape
• The value chain of practices we use to meet our purpose

Climate
• WIP
• Deadlines
• Dependencies
• Team dynamics
• Architecture
• Work environment
• Frameworks

Doctrine
• “Set of heuristics that inform decision making” - Trent Hone
• Focus on ﬂow
• Develop feed back loops
• Inspect and adapt
• ...

Leadership
• Decision making...
• this improvement over that feature.

Paths
• Build the right thing (Value)
• Build the thing right (Quality)
• Build it fast enough (Flow)

Context
The Big House company have received some venture capital to bring new products
and services to try and disrupt the property market.They’ve recently spun up a
new team and they have been given the mission of “Cut out the estate agent!” They
plan to build a system that links potential buyers with property sellers to agree a
fee before pulling in solicitors to complete the transaction.The team comprises of a
Product Owner, 3 back end developers, a dedicated front end developer, a user
experience designer and a tester. They are also supported by an Agile Coach.

Maturity
• Novel - this is new to us
• Emerging - we are trying this out
• Good - we are getting to grips with this and we know there is room for
improvement
• Best - we’ve nailed it.

Complex systems
“Everything is fragmented"
Dave Snowden

Given this situation, how could we make it better?

Any of us could do that
We know someone who knows how to do this
We’d need to try a few things

ordered
unordered
Sense Categorise Respond
Best Practice
Sense Analyse Respond
Good Practice
Probe Sense Respond
Emergent Practice
Act Sense Respond
Novel Practice
Obvious
ComplicatedComplex
Chaotic Disorder

adjacent possible:
a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the
present state of things, a map of all the ways in which
the present can reinvent itself… the adjacent possible
“captures both the limits and the creative potential of
change and innovation.”
http://www.practicallyeﬃcient.com/2010/09/28/theadjacent-possible.html

But, what if....
• People aren’t experienced enough to map their evolutionary point accurately?
• This is used against us?
• The team changes?

References
• https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/swardley/an-introduction-to-wardley-maps
• https://medium.com/wardleymaps
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7oz366X0-8
• https://lizkeogh.com/2013/07/21/estimating-complexity/
• https://www.lean.org/LeanPost/Posting.cfm?LeanPostId=444

Thank you!

Images…
• http://blog.deloitte.com.au/navigating-the-agile-landscape/
• https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/08/17/the-premium-mediocre-life-of-maya-millennial/
• http://flashcuritiba.com/mcdonalds-lanca-plataforma-signature-com-o-sanduiche-clubhouse/
• https://www.frogbikes.com/lightweight-kids-bikes/balance-bikes/tadpole.aspx
• http://www.livingwellaware.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Training-Wheels-Work.jpg
• http://elelur.com/data_images/mammals/wolf/wolf-01.jpg
• https://www.leanagileintelligence.com/
• http://deltapartners.ca/?ACT=39&fid=35&d=5427&f=deming_quote.jpg
• https://www.flickr.com/photos/27764576@N06/16831729184/in/album-72157651963367835/
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