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onlinewardleymaps.com syntax

This is a file used for in-context learning to generate onlinewardleymaps.com style Wardley Maps. Example maps are separated by lines with headers that start with "##". Each map itself starts with "title <map's title>" and ends with a line composed of "style wardley".

Compute Ecosystem Map

title Compute Ecosystem
anchor Product Engineer [0.95, 0.3]
anchor Service Provisioning Team [0.95, 0.5]
anchor Server Operations Team [0.95, 0.7]

component Provision New Service [0.8, 0.4]
component Service Provision Request Workflow [0.6, 0.4]
component Route Traffic To Service [0.75, 0.5]
component Add Capacity To Service [0.8, 0.7]
component Puppet & Clusto [0.6, 0.65]

Provision New Service->Puppet & Clusto
Product Engineer->Provision New Service
Service Provisioning Team->Provision New Service
Service Provisioning Team->Route Traffic To Service
Provision New Service->Service Provision Request Workflow
Server Operations Team->Add Capacity To Service
Add Capacity To Service->Puppet & Clusto
Route Traffic To Service->Puppet & Clusto
evolve Puppet & Clusto->Mesos & Aurora 0.8 label [2, 2]

style wardley

Tea Shop map

title Tea Shop
anchor Business [0.95, 0.63]
anchor Public [0.95, 0.78]
component Cup of Tea [0.79, 0.61] label [-85.48, 3.78]
component Cup [0.73, 0.78]
component Tea [0.63, 0.81]
component Hot Water [0.52, 0.80]
component Water [0.38, 0.82]
component Kettle [0.43, 0.35] label [-57, 4]
evolve Kettle->Electric Kettle 0.62 label [16, 5]
component Power [0.1, 0.7] label [-27, 20]
evolve Power 0.89 label [-12, 21]
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; limited by 
Kettle->Power

annotation 1 [[0.43,0.49],[0.08,0.79]] Standardising power allows Kettles to evolve faster
annotation 2 [0.48, 0.85] Hot water is obvious and well known
annotations [0.72, 0.03]

note +a generic note appeared [0.23, 0.33]

style wardley
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