Core activities: Mapping

Mapping: Visualising plans and priorities, keeping the agenda for change visible, the bridge between Agendashift’s two generative patterns:

• To organise the outcomes generated by occurrences of the Ideal, Obstacles, Outcomes (IdOO) pattern and as a medium for its ongoing work
• To help manage the process of Right-to-Left Strategy Deployment, reflecting priorities and other thinking as it evolves

Deep Dive workshops include the following “string” of three Mapping exercises:

• The Cynefin Four Points Contextualisation exercise (Snowden), introduced under the pseudonym Option Approach Mapping
• Option Relationship Mapping (Keogh/Scotland, Wardley), previously known as Reverse Wardley Mapping
• Pathway Mapping (User Story Mapping meets Reverse STATIK)

Shorter workshops will typically use just one of the above exercises or the Changeban game (which covers elements of Elaboration and Operation also).

Longer workshops may introduce these and/or other related exercises/topics:

• Impact mapping (Adzic)
• X-Matrix (Lean) with the TASTE model (Scotland)
• Strategy reconciliations

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