Management Craft

Simon Wardley

Researcher, strategist, and creator of Wardley Mapping.

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Wardley is known for Wardley Mapping and for the Pioneer, Settler, Town Planner model of organizing work as activities evolve from novel and uncertain to industrialized and repeatable.
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How to organise your teamsArticle · 2023Wardley's later explanation of the Pioneer, Settler, Town Planner model, framed as a hard and risky organizational structure for companies coping with constant evolution.Pioneers, Town Planners and those missing SettlersArticle · 2011Wardley's early Pioneer, Settler, Town Planner note, later updated to credit Robert X. Cringely's Commandos, Infantry, Police model from Accidental Empires as the source.

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