(2022-03-09) Hon S11e12 Forget About Infrastructure I Just Want My Tea

Dan Hon: s11e12: Forget about infrastructure, I just want my tea. They still want to know what “infrastructure” means and you’re struggling because you need something real and not something abstract

This time, you tell a story about making tea

Me: So the electricity and the wires and the pipes and the machining and the metal, they’re all infrastructure, right?

Me: So one thing about them is that for the person doing the job at hand, they’re largely invisible.

Me: Yes, it is. But the point is that the pipes and all that other stuff, because everyone else also needs them for Other Things that are not making tea (and therefore not as important), they’ve become commodities. They are not done from scratch by the person who wants tea anymore.

Me: Okay, here. You have this application. You have this team of developers or this vendor or whatever. And we don’t know if they’re doing the equivalent of digging up ore, refining it, moving it somewhere else, making their own roads and maintaining the roads to move that refined ore, and then turning it into pipes just to move some data through a pipe from one place to another.

And that, my friends, is your introduction to Wardley Mapping.