Kodsnack 676 - Maps will get you fired, with Simon Wardley

About this episode

Fredrik interviews Simon Wardley about the significance of mapping in organizations and the challenges of being labeled a heretic.

Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2025, Fredrik talks to Simon Wardley about maps ( not the same as charts!), stories, commodotization, digital sovereignty, getting labeled a heretic by all sides, and a lot more. Among other things, Simon discusses how you can map things out and thereby find new ways to present and challenge the current state within and organization. Not that it will necessarily be very popular, hence the bit about being called a heretic. Many thanks to Øredev for inviting Kodsnack again, they paid for the trip and the editing time of these keynote recordings, but have no say about the content of these or any other episodes. Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS ! Comments, questions or tips? We a re @kodsnack , @tobiashieta , @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at info@kodsnack.se if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive. If you enjoy Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes ! You can also support the podcast by buying us a coffee (or two!) through Ko-fi . Links Øredev All the presentation videos from Øredev 2025 Simon Wardley From here to there and back again - Simon’s keynote Rewilding software…

People in this episode

Hosts: Fredrik, Kristoffer, Tobias

Guest: Simon Wardley

Topics covered

• maps
• commoditization
• digital sovereignty
• organizational change
• storytelling
• heretics

Keywords

• maps
• commoditization
• digital sovereignty
• organizational change
• storytelling
• heretic
• Øredev
• Simon Wardley

Sponsors

Cloudnet

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Øredev

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