Situational Awareness¶

Situational Awareness, a concept borrowed from military strategy by Simon Wardley, is the ability to understand the current state of a landscape before making strategic decisions: knowing where components sit in their evolution, what dependencies exist between them, and which forces are driving change. A Wardley Map is the primary tool for building it, making explicit what most organizations leave implicit and turning vague intuitions about market and technology into a shared, navigable picture. Without an accurate view of the landscape, any strategy is guesswork and any architectural decision is disconnected from the direction things are actually moving.

See also: Wardley Mapping · Climate · Doctrine