Bits or pieces?

I’m often asked whether we can add a new axis onto a Wardley map or some new legend; to be blunt, I prefer not to. When you create a Wardley map, you first start by identifying users and thei...

https://blog.gardeviance.org/2024/02/a-good-enough-map.html

If you’re coming here for the latest and greatest in project management techniques, then I’ll stop you there. In this article, I will go through some basic principles that are well over fifte...

https://blog.gardeviance.org/2024/01/if-youre-coming-here-for-latest-and.html

I am occasionally asked how to combine Wardley Maps with Cynefin. They are complementary tools, not a replacement for each other nor something that can be mashed into a "holistic" view (except in...

https://blog.gardeviance.org/2024/01/i-am-occasionally-asked-how-to-combine.html

Explorers, villagers and town planners (EVTP) is a system for organising a company that is having to deal with constant change due to an evolving environment. It's over 18 years old, it's a small...

https://blog.gardeviance.org/2023/12/how-to-organise-yourself-dangerous-path.html

In the last post, I explored the idea of code as maps. In this post, we will dig a bit deeper and try to understand the essential role of open source. To begin with, let us understand what code...

https://blog.gardeviance.org/2023/11/why-fuss-about-conversational.html

1.0 INTRODUCTION The Fourth Industrial Revolution (INDUSTRY 4.0) has been described as revolutionising the global business landscape. It is the "next phase in the digitization of manufacturing"...

https://blog.gardeviance.org/2023/10/the-fourth-industrial-revolution-has.html

1. ARE VIRTUAL ROADS THE FUTURE? Autonomous vehicles, digital twins, last-mile delivery, ridesharing, micro-mobility, transport hubs, hyperloop, decarbonisation, flying taxis and informatics - ...

https://blog.gardeviance.org/2023/09/1.html

INTRODUCTION Over the last 15 months, I've been working on a research project with many volunteers to map different industries. This has been an exercise in exploration. Most of us are famili...

https://blog.gardeviance.org/2023/06/introduction-over-last-15-months-ive.html

It's an interesting question.  There are some that use maps to challenge what they're doing i.e. "Why are those racks custom-built?" There are others who use maps to apply the right metho...

https://blog.gardeviance.org/2023/06/what-do-i-use-maps-for.html

In my last post on conversational programming I asked the reader to "get yourself ready for a world of conversational programming" but I wasn't willing to call it for ChatGPT or the existing cro...

https://blog.gardeviance.org/2023/05/why-fuss-about-conversational.html

WHY THE FUSS ABOUT CONVERSATIONAL PROGRAMMING? (a slightly more upto date version is on medium  - I keep these as my original first drafts). First, there isn't much fuss ... yet. But there wil...

https://blog.gardeviance.org/2023/01/why-fuss-about-conversational.html

THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF SITUATIONAL AWARENESS. I’m a bit of a stuck record when it comes to supply chains, situational awareness and mapping. In order to get myself off the subject, I thought I...

https://blog.gardeviance.org/2022/04/look-before-you-leap.html

I'm going to explain a few things that don't matter in order to explain one thing that does. So let us start. First, I invented a method of mapping competitive landscapes . This not only includ...

https://blog.gardeviance.org/2021/11/mountains-matter-in-digital-sovereingty.html

In this post I'd like to discuss why I believe video games will become a new battleground for the soul of a country.  Before I start, I will need to cover some basics. However, I'm also going to...

https://blog.gardeviance.org/2021/09/those-virtual-battlegrounds.html

It has been a long time since I've posted and there is so much to discuss. The continued industrialisation of the technology stack, the automation of radicalisaton online, the impacts of physical...

https://blog.gardeviance.org/2020/10/digital-sovereignty.html

From the earlier sections, I hope we have a basic grasp of concepts like values, principles, enablement systems and the general map of culture. Of course, it's quite a lot of ground to cover, so...

https://blog.gardeviance.org/2019/10/embedded-in-memory.html

In this section, I'm going to explore a bit more into our map of culture in order to shed some light on the question of what should I do now?  As with mapping in general, there are no right ans...

https://blog.gardeviance.org/2019/10/exploring-value-in-culture-map.html

In the previous chapter, I left you with a map of brexit. I said that I had avoided the use of values within it ... mea culpa ... I had left some in there. Two values in particular - fairness an...

https://blog.gardeviance.org/2019/09/from-values-to-rituals.html

The first rule of brexit is “YOU’RE WRONG”.  No matter what you say on brexit then someone will argue that you’re wrong and that they’re right. So let us start by concluding that w...

https://blog.gardeviance.org/2019/09/exploring-brexit.html

How do we map culture? What is culture? Will mapping a culture somehow effect it? In one interview with a global company that relied upon the use of stories, an observation was made that was ...

https://blog.gardeviance.org/2019/09/mapping-culture.html

THE PROBLEM During 2005-2006 with the implementation of a pioneer-settler-town planner structure in a high tech startup in Old Street, London (a barren wasteland of technology at that time), one...

https://blog.gardeviance.org/2019/07/what-culture-is-right-for-you.html

It is with great sadness that I write on the sudden and unexpected passing of Martin Burns. Death has become a frequent visitor in my world as of late, each time cruelly taking a friend and in s...

https://blog.gardeviance.org/2019/05/a-fond-farewell.html

(draft) I often see examples where people add characteristics to a map or use new definitions for one of the axis. There's nothing wrong with this and I want to encourage people to explore. One...

https://blog.gardeviance.org/2018/10/what-is-expert.html

(draft) There has been a lot of chatter recently about rebooting GDS (Government Digital Service). Don't get me wrong, GDS has made mistakes but some were actually my fault. I made a terrible...

https://blog.gardeviance.org/2018/10/rebooting-gds.html

CHAPTER 19 (rough draft) ON STEPPING STONES Manipulating the environment to your advantage is the essence of strategy. In the case of Fotango, we understood our competitive environment and ...

https://blog.gardeviance.org/2018/03/on-playing-chess.html