Simon Wardley organized a research where using Wardley Maps and other collaborative tools we have gone through different topics that the different people were interested.
The research consisted in:
- A group of 36 people,
- Working together during 12 hours (6 sessions).
- The purpose: gain situational awareness and define a set of areas of investment.
The exercise tries to use the collective intelligence of people with different backgrounds (technicians, psichologysts, educators… ) working together to gain awareness.
The miro board looks like this:

On the initial stage we defined the main topics to discuss and after that we defined 3 main areas of work:
- Knowledge tasks,
- Societal change,
- Trust.
This is, for instance, the final map of the societal change,

The areas of investment that were identified at this stage were these ones:

Takeaways
In the short period of time where we worked on this, we gained a lot of awareness on the situation. This is a quality view that have been done without data (we had no data validation for the assumptions we did).
In other scenarios I have worked, we had quite good data sources to enable us to draw the Maps with more data insights. This was not the case, but anyway it was a great learning process.