This is a more advanced example of using grapviz to build a wardley map.
This is a wardley map generated from Graphviz.
It’s not a very good map, as it’s not trying to solve a real problem. This is mostly to see if I can use graphviz to display this.
The next example is more realistic.
Cup of tea wardley map
This is one of Simon Wardley’s simple examples where a tea shop has built a custom kettle. It’s a great example of demonstrating that you are possibly doing something wrong in an obvious manner.
This is all you need to generate the below image from the above text:
dot architecture.dot -Tpng > architecture.png
You can even add annotations to the lines by adding [label=”My Link”] to the connection before.
These are ideal to add to the README.md of github projects.
I especially like the idea of having a diagram with the source to create it under source control.
This requires you to install graphviz which can be done:
# Mac
brew install graphviz
# Windows
choco install graphviz
# Linux
sudo apt-get install graphviz
For the purists who want to keep their machines clean:
# Docker
cat file.dot | docker container run --rm -i vladgolubev/dot2png > file.png
