# Simon Wardley & Wardley Maps *Source: · markdown twin of the entry page.* *An influence on **Dinis Cruz** — one of 25 entries in his register.* - **tier** traced — corpus evidence exists today - **kind** person + framework - **status** link-out — blocks 1-3 and a pointer: the trace of this influence is an entire sibling site - **briefing** none The deepest-traced influence in the corpus by volume — around 210 files — and the one whose material is entirely a sibling site's. This entry owns only the resonance: why a security person reorganised his thinking around an evolution axis. ## Block 1 — The anchor Wardley Maps — Simon Wardley - anchor: The book/blog series, published in the open. The anchor is the mapping method itself rather than any single post. *Linked, never rehosted.* ## Block 2 — In his own words The resonance is not the diagrams. It is that mapping makes a strategy **arguable**: two people looking at the same map can disagree about where a component sits and settle it with evidence, which is impossible when the strategy is a paragraph of prose. That is also why this influence keeps appearing in places that have nothing to do with strategy. The evolution axis is a claim about a component's state; the risks register's accepted-risk format is a claim with a named acceptor; a trace row on this site is a claim about a codebase. **The shape is the same, and it came from here.** [Popper](../popper/index.html) is the other half of that story. ## Block 3 — The principle **Situational awareness before strategy — draw the map before you argue about the move, and the map is a falsifiable claim about position and movement rather than a picture of your opinions.** ## Block 4 — The trace table **Where the trace table would be:** **The trace of this influence is an entire site.** Reproducing it here would break the deconfliction rule the network runs on: two sites making the same argument slightly differently is worse than a dead link. The influence entry owns the *resonance*; the sibling owns the *material* — the maps, the evolution axes, the maps-as-code work and its own release history. wardley-maps.sgit.ai — https://wardley-maps.sgit.ai ## Block 6 — The checklist - Is the map drawn before the strategy is argued, or produced afterwards to justify it? - Does every component on it sit somewhere on the evolution axis, or are some of them just boxes? - Is the claim about **movement** — where this is going — or only about where it is now? - Could someone who disagrees point at the specific thing they think is misplaced? ## Block 7 — The wider library - **Wardley Maps (the online book)** — the whole method, published free by its author - **Learn Wardley Mapping** — the community's structured entry point ## The corpus evidence | Path in the corpus | What it carries | |---|---| | `(corpus-wide, ~210 files)` | the largest single-influence footprint the mining run found, spanning strategy documents, briefs and the published mapping material | | `wardley-maps.sgit.ai (sibling site + its own brief pack)` | Dinis Cruz's own published Wardley material — videos, infographics and the maps-as-code work | --- CC BY 4.0 — Dinis Cruz, with AI co-authorship (Claude, Anthropic). The anchor work belongs to its author and is linked, not licensed here.