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Capital Map 2.0.

Last year's map asked what you have. This one asks what runs without you.

A worked example

DRAFT · TREV TO CONFIRM

My own map, from a utilities organisation.

DOMAIN · OTHERS RUN ITToday: Explain HR, payroll and rostering to each new project.Without me: A journey-to-test shape the HR and payroll people decompose their own work into.

DELIVERY · OTHERS RUN ITToday: Write the requirements.Without me: Stakeholders wrote 300+ requirements inside the structure, with AI drafting, in about four weeks of my time.

INFLUENCE · OTHERS RUN ITToday: Be the person who knows.Without me: A gate where a named owner approves every requirement, whether or not I'm in the room.

IP · OTHERS RUN ITToday: Keep it in my head.Without me: The Requirements Engineering field guide and the Core HR explorer: the structure, written down and given away.

Fill the left column honestly: the work you do yourself. Then write the right column: the structure that would do it when you’re not in the room. The status is the point.

The four capitals

01
Domain
FROM
I know everything about this domain.
TO
I know how to structure discovery so anyone can articulate domain knowledge.
WHAT I DO MYSELF TODAY
WHAT WOULD RUN WITHOUT ME
STATUS
IN MY HEADWRITTEN DOWNOTHERS RUN IT
02
Delivery
FROM
I deliver requirements.
TO
I deliver a system for others to deliver through.
WHAT I DO MYSELF TODAY
WHAT WOULD RUN WITHOUT ME
STATUS
IN MY HEADWRITTEN DOWNOTHERS RUN IT
03
Influence
FROM
People ask me because I'm the only one who writes well.
TO
People follow the system I designed because it works.
WHAT I DO MYSELF TODAY
WHAT WOULD RUN WITHOUT ME
STATUS
IN MY HEADWRITTEN DOWNOTHERS RUN IT
04
IP
FROM
This lives in my head.
TO
This is the system everyone uses.
WHAT I DO MYSELF TODAY
WHAT WOULD RUN WITHOUT ME
STATUS
IN MY HEADWRITTEN DOWNOTHERS RUN IT

What I own

An architect’s IP is five structures. Mark each one as it stands today.

01
A shape
Journey, process, requirement, test. No orphans.
STATUS
IN MY HEADWRITTEN DOWNOTHERS RUN IT
02
A template for each kind of thing
A rule is not a requirement.
STATUS
IN MY HEADWRITTEN DOWNOTHERS RUN IT
03
Names that explain themselves
You know what it is before you open it.
STATUS
IN MY HEADWRITTEN DOWNOTHERS RUN IT
04
Links that mean something
“Implements” is not “relates to.”
STATUS
IN MY HEADWRITTEN DOWNOTHERS RUN IT
05
A gate
A named owner says yes.
STATUS
IN MY HEADWRITTEN DOWNOTHERS RUN IT

Monday · pick one

○Run the Mirror Test on five of your requirements. One hour.○Use one of the three lines in a real meeting.○Turn one document into a template someone else fills in. That’s your first architect IP.

LAST YEAR: AM I DOING WORK, OR BUILDING CAPITAL? THIS YEAR: AM I WRITING REQUIREMENTS, OR BUILDING THE SYSTEM THAT WRITES THEM?

IN MY HEAD 0 WRITTEN DOWN 0 OTHERS RUN IT 0

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LAST YEAR’S MAPCapital Map 1.0 and the four frameworks

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