Been thinking about Wardley Doctrine and how to make it consumable without an inherent need for a guide (guides are helpful, and an opt-in), but can we do something to improve learning the doctrine?

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What if we were to organize Wardley Doctrine into snippets labeled with Category, Principle, and Practice? A sort of small package format that provides a packet of doctrine information. A microdoctrine.

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For example:

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Category: Development
Principle: Know your users
Practice: Know who are your users

Look at transactions over last x years. Pareto filter it and group into recognisable buckets of users
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Another example:
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Category: Development
Principle: Know your users
Practice: Know what they are trying to achieve

- what is their “official” purpose (f.e. reduce unemployment, help their customers)?
- what drives them (bonuses, return on investment,challenge,…

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They don’t have to be short snippets, here’s an example of a microdoctrine in form of a book:
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Category: Development
Principle: Focus on user needs
Practice: Conduct user needs research

See https://jdittrich.github.io/userNeedResearchBook
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Currently, adopting doctrine is a daunting task. There is so much of it. Breaking down Wardley Doctrine into microdoctrine snippets could afford smaller chunks to assimilate, while maintaining the overall structure, intent, and direction.

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We also know that the application of doctrine across companies can vary, because companies are different, operate in different contexts, etc.

Having microdoctrine, I can have a large selection of Practices for a given Category and Principle that I could pick from
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Microdoctrine can be taylored to an organization by picking and choosing specific snippets.

I can imagine various consultants providing their snippets to the community and enriching our collective microdoctrine while still being able to serve as guides if needed
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Also.. the unit of contribution is much less. I don’t need to be a full blown consultant to contribute to doctrine, I can be an expert on a specific practice and share my microdoctrine for a Category + Principle + Practice and be done.

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I think organizing Wardley Doctrine into microdoctrine could drive productization of doctrine which seems to be very much in custom area today

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