Tea Shop in wtg

Your first wardley map with WTG

This is the “tea shop” example described step by step in wtg

Value Chain

Imagine you are a tea shop. The business and the public need a cup of tea; this is described like this:

business - cup of tea
public - cup of tea

The the cup of tea required tea, cup, and hot water. tea is more visible than cup which is more visible than hot water

cup of tea - tea
cup of tea -- cup
cup of tea --- hot water

Adding all the dependencies will lead to this rended:

business - cup of tea
public - cup of tea
cup of tea - tea
cup of tea -- cup
cup of tea --- hot water
hot water - water
hot water -- kettle
kettle - power

Evolution

Now that we have built a value chain, we can place the components according to their evolution. Let’s start with the anchors. Business is at the end of stage 3. public is in stage 4.

business: |..|..|..x|..|
public: |..|..|..|.x.|

configuring all the components leads to this map:

business - cup of tea
public - cup of tea
cup of tea - cup
cup of tea -- tea
cup of tea --- hot water
hot water - water
hot water -- kettle
kettle - power

business:   |...|.....|...x.|..........|
public:     |...|.....|.....|..x.......|
cup of tea: |...|.....|..x..|..........|
cup:        |...|.....|.....|.....x....|
tea:        |...|.....|.....|.....x....|
hot water:  |...|.....|.....|....x.....|
water:      |...|.....|.....|.....x....|
kettle:     |...|...x.|..>..|..........|
power:      |...|.....|....x|.....>....|