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I have been working on a value proposition for a major deal where the customer is looking for a technological partner that enables them to unblock a set of challenges they are having on their data centers. The customer’s main pain points are highlighted in red, the links between assets are drawn in blue, and … Read more
This picture below was published by Simon Wardley in Twitter and clearly reflects how maps can contribute to do economic analysis of the situations you have in a given scenario. I have done some similar exercise with a plain table in excel with 2 columns with the scenario AS-IS and TO-BE, but this graphical representation … Read more
Serverless is a buzzword It points to the future of software development in a post cloud world. The idea of “Serverless” is NOT about removing the servers completely (or you couldn’t use the internet at all), but essentially paying for services that mean that someone else manages the servers for you thereby reducing maintenance load. It’s … Read more
Simon Wardley says related to maps: practice, practice, practice… so here there is a practice. The map Development environment Solidity: is quite mature and the community of developers is increasing, there are so many places where you can learn how to develop in solidity, and the documentation is quite good. There are other languages but … Read more
The purpose of a map is to provide a visual representation of geographic information, such as the locations of cities, mountains, rivers, and other natural or man-made features of the landscape. Maps can also show political boundaries, transportation routes, and other important details such as elevation, climate zones, and population density. Maps serve a variety … Read more
How to design an organization with constant evolution in mind in a single diagram.
Gartner is advertising “bi-modal”; a “new” way to drive operations and new activities of a corporation. I was reading the idea and the concepts around it and I found it “old” idea, with some propositions that are so nice to have, and that they can be defended on the paper, but that in the reality … Read more
Wardley maps continue increasing popularity, now IBM talks about it: “Governments should adopt the Wardley Map approach to help shape their migration to Government as a Platform.” http://insights-on-business.com/government/five-steps-to-happier-citizens/
Position and move are essential information you need to put in place a strategy. The strategy is put in place through attacking and defensive actions. In this case, the customer wants to reduce the number of vendors on IT space. We have classified the different vendors depending if they are tier-1, tier-2, tier-3. The picture … Read more
This post talks about contracts = http://blog.gardeviance.org/2015/03/other-tools-i-use-with-mapping.html Points to remind: Good contract structure small and structured contracts Poor contract structure Large contract covering many uncharted components Highly common to cause highly structured processes to be applied to uncharted components. Large cost overruns.