Marijn Huizendveld
November 9-12, 2020
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM (MST)
Organizations face more and more complexity these days as a result of a mesh of products, services, technology, and the people that work to build, operate, and maintain them.
Domain-Driven Design helps us with solving problems the right way. But what helps us solve the right problem? How can we continuously validate our progress with people in "non-tech" roles? And what should we do when the world around us changes, which it always ends up doing? Is the plan we had still valid?
Imagine having a map that helps you understand the ecosystem your organization is embedded in. A map that makes sense from both a technical and business perspective. With patterns that provide guidance about effective actions regardless of the specific domain you are working in. Wardley Mapping is that: it is a ubiquitous language around strategy and execution that helps you solve the right problem.
Earlier this year, Marijn spoke about appropriating Wardley Maps in the DDD community as context maps. This video is a preview of what to expect if you are considering attending this upcoming workshop.
In this course, you will learn to map your business and technological landscape in such a way that a common language emerges to discuss strategic thinking and decision making. It allows for scenario building, it teaches about bias and assumptions, and it comes packaged with a long list of ideas that may help in your situation.
The map can hint to us what practices from DDD are beneficial in our situation. And it can serve as a context map too, except this one has meaning to business people as well.
Using visualizations, strategies can be challenged and implementation options debated and weighed. As such, mapping is about the act and not merely the artifact. That is why this training is hands-on from the very start.
This class will emphasize practice over theory. Mapping with imperfect knowledge today is better than mapping with perfect knowledge next year. The course will teach you the basics and provide hooks into the theoretical aspects behind exercises.
Anyone that wants to challenge the status quo of decision-making under uncertainty in technology and business. No prior knowledge is required and your open attitude to learn new things will be an asset during the workshop.
Marijn teaches people of different backgrounds the skill of doing the things that matter in environments that are critical to performance.
Often his work involves organizations, software and customers. He brings these worlds together while teaching you and your colleagues how to do so.
Judge him on added value, it's the only metric that matters. You may call him a consultant, coach, trainer and entrepreneur, because that's what he is.
