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In this episode of Serverless Craic, Dave Anderson, Mark McCann, and Michael O’Reilly explore Chapter 15 of The Value Flywheel Effect — Map Your Solution. They discuss how Wardley Mapping and tech stack mapping create situational awareness, reduce friction between teams, and guide better architectural decisions.

If you’re a software engineer, architect, or tech leader aiming to evolve your systems with serverless and cloud-native thinking, this conversation shows practical techniques to uncover bottlenecks, reduce technical debt, and align teams on strategic improvements.

⏱️ Chapters

00:00 – Intro: jumping from summer to winter
01:00 – Mapping your solution: why it matters
02:20 – Tech stack mapping in practice
03:50 – Situational awareness and collaboration
05:50 – Funding priorities and bottlenecks
07:20 – Cloud services, serverless options, and evolution paths
09:30 – Custom build vs buy vs adopt cloud-native
11:00 – Organisational insights from mapping
12:00 – Duplication and domain-driven design issues
13:00 – Team Topologies and independent service heuristic
14:20 – Total cost of ownership and well-architected lens
15:50 – Target architecture and business impact
16:50 – Using mapping for strategy and incentives
17:40 – Context switching and leadership effectiveness
18:10 – Takeaways: evolutionary architecture

🔗 Resources

📖 The Value Flywheel Effect Book – https://thevalueflywheeleffect.com

🎥 Wardley Mapping 101 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP9Rl26Xeag

🎧 Podcast: Wardley Mapping is a Game-Changer – https://open.spotify.com/episode/5cUQgQFBeIkOBWUe35rDRU

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