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WardleyMaps.com — Chris (Krzysztof) Daniel
Learning Active reference / course
#6 of the ten to read first. Home of Wardley Mapping 101 — the best free fifteen-minute end-to-end worked example, one sustained case study rather than a tour of features.
What it is
The best-designed and most current explanatory site in the ecosystem, and — importantly — the one most willing to editorialise. "Wardley Mapping 101" (https://www.wardleymaps.com/guides/wardley-mapping-101 — verified) is a 15-minute beginner path built around a single sustained worked example (an e-commerce skincare business), taking the reader through value chain, the four evolution stages, a complete map, and then step-by-step instructions to build their own. Beyond that it carries a map gallery, case studies, checklists, a curated 29-book strategy reading list, downloadable templates (PDF 4:3, PDF wide, PNG for Miro, PowerPoint), and a commentaries stream: Where the Doctrine Ends (2 Jun 2026), End of an Era: Mapkeep Is Shutting Down on 30 May 2026 (5 May 2026), Wardley Mapping Meets Mission Command (1 Apr 2026), The 30-Minute Map That Saved a Project (28 Jan 2026), How Wardley Mapping Unlocks Non-Linear Thinking (21 Jan 2026), SWOT Analysis Limitation (14 Nov 2025). Workshops, coaching and speaking are advertised, several tracks marked "Coming Soon."
Limitations
One author's interpretation, not a neutral or official source, and the "adapted and expanded" framing means it departs from Wardley in places. Commercial services are woven into the educational content. Several service tracks are still "Coming Soon." Its tools list is thin (essentially Miro, pen and paper, "your head") and it does not attempt tool comparison.
The details
| Maintainer | Krzysztof "Chris" Daniel (KDA). Content described as "adapted and expanded by Krzysztof Daniel from Wardley Maps by Simon Wardley." Daniel is also the author of the older cdaniel/wardleymapstool. |
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| Started | Copyright notice reads © 2025 WardleyMaps.com; current in 2026. |
| Status, August 2026 | Actively maintained — the most current editorial Wardley site. Commentaries verified through 2 June 2026. |
| Licence | CC BY-SA 4.0, stated site-wide and repeated per-guide. |
| Home | https://www.wardleymaps.com/ |
| Best single link | https://www.wardleymaps.com/guides/wardley-mapping-101 |
Verified 2026-08-23 — status, licence and links checked against the source on that date. The site re-checks every URL it publishes on a schedule and publishes the run, successes and failures alike.
Attribution. "WardleyMaps.com, adapted and expanded by Krzysztof Daniel from Wardley Maps by Simon Wardley, CC BY-SA 4.0." Quotable and screenshot-able under CC; ShareAlike applies.