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Training

2 days

Learn the fundamentals

Create your own maps

Derive strategies

Wardley Mapping Workshop

Wardley Mapping

Building
situational awareness with
Wardley Maps

Only with genuine situational awareness can meaningful decisions be made. The Wardley Mapping training introduces Wardley Maps as a visual tool for strategic planning in IT contexts.

In the training you learn to read Wardley Maps, create them yourself and use them as a team to prepare and communicate strategic decisions. The core building blocks of the method are explained and applied directly in exercises.

  • Make strategic situations visible – through value chains and evolution on a map.
  • Challenge and validate assumptions – as a team rather than in isolation.
  • Prepare decisions – using the Strategy Cycle and clearer options.

You learn to use Wardley Maps as a tool for strategic decisions – from your first map to advanced patterns.

These aspects of
Wardley Mapping
are at the centre.

Value Chain & Evolution

Map users, needs and capabilities as a value chain – and position them along the evolution axis.

Strategy Cycle

Use the Strategy Cycle (Purpose, Landscape, Climate, Doctrine, Leadership) for concrete decisions.

Climatic Patterns & Doctrine

Recognise recurring patterns and principles of action to avoid common strategic mistakes.

Explorer, Villager & Town Planner

Understand which capabilities and character types are needed in which situations within teams and organisations.

How the
training
works.

  • Lay the foundations – the core components of Wardley Maps are introduced and explained with examples.
  • Create your first map – work together towards your first map and explore value chains and evolution in practice.
  • Iterate and refine – use the Strategy Cycle to expand and sharpen maps across multiple iterations.
  • Apply advanced concepts – try out Climatic Patterns, Doctrine, Pioneers/Settlers/Town Planners and communication strategies on your own maps.
  • Transfer to your context – derive concrete next steps for architecture, product strategy or team design.

The training is hands-on: short input sessions alternate with practical mapping sessions, discussions and reflection in plenary.

Your value
from Wardley Mapping

Building situational awareness

All stakeholders gain a shared understanding of the strategic situation and its interdependencies.

Clearer strategic decisions

Options become comparable, risks visible and priorities transparent.

Better use of teams & capabilities

You recognise which capabilities are needed and how teams can be aligned accordingly.

Connection to DDD & architecture work

Wardley Maps complement context maps, architecture views and roadmaps with a strategic perspective.

Who is the
Wardley Mapping Training
for?

For anyone who wants to not just discuss strategic decisions, but make them visible.

  • Strategic decision-makers in IT contexts
  • Business analysts and product owners
  • Scrum Masters & facilitators focused on collaborative decision-making
  • Software architects, developers and system owners

Prerequisites: No prior Wardley Mapping knowledge required. Experience with architecture or strategy work is helpful but not a prerequisite.

Wardley Mapping Training:
Format & Organisation

Duration

2-day training

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Format

In-house training or online training

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Prerequisites

No specific Wardley Mapping knowledge required. Fundamentals are covered in the training.

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Dates

Dates on request – we tailor the format to your context and your questions.

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Impressions from our
Wardley Mapping Workshops

Wardley Mapping workshop board with structured sticky notes visualising value chains and component evolutionMultiple Wardley Maps at various stages of development during a collaborative mapping sessionTeam discussion in front of a Wardley Map with purpose, user and needs analysisWardley Mapping workshop group in an intense discussion about strategic positioningWorkshop participants analysing the visibility axis of a Wardley Map with evolution stagesPresentation of Wardley Mapping results to workshop participantsWardley Mapping facilitator explaining the evolution axis and component positioningInteractive Wardley Mapping session with active participant engagement and map development

Want to use
Wardley Maps
in your organisation?

Request training

Whether as a one-off training to work through a specific strategic question or as the starting point for regular mapping sessions – the format is tailored to your context.

Just send an email to team@tangible-concepts.de or use the contact form.

To complement the Wardley Mapping Training, our DDD Toolbox and the DDD Kickstart Training are ideal for connecting domain models and strategic decisions.