About the Doctrine Assessment Tool
What this is
A quick way to assess your organisation against Simon Wardley's doctrine — the universally useful patterns a company can apply regardless of its context. Open the assessment grid, click each principle, and mark it good, medium, or bad. The colours build a picture of where you are strong and where you are getting in your own way.
This is a rebuild of the original React tool at doctrine.wardleymaps.com as a single vanilla web component — no framework, no build step, and the full grid is readable even with JavaScript disabled.
Why I rebuilt it
The original is a React single-page app I wrote years ago. I rebuilt it here as an experiment: I wanted to see how well an AI coding agent copes with legacy software — taking a framework-heavy SPA and porting it into a completely different, framework-free engine. I did the work with Claude, and came away more than impressed. The interactive grid, the contextual help, save and load, the bilingual content, the shareable links and the server-rendered preview cards all landed as plain web components — no framework, no bundler — with the doctrine text carried over intact from the old app.
Why it matters
Strategy fails quietly. Organisations rarely lose because they picked the wrong move; they lose because of self-sabotaging habits — no common language, no situational awareness, treating everything as core, mistaking efficiency for effectiveness. Doctrine names those habits so you can see them. Marking the grid honestly, with colleagues who will disagree with your colours, surfaces the gaps a strategy deck would paper over.
Who it's for
Anyone responsible for how an organisation works: founders, leaders, strategists, and teams adopting Wardley Mapping. No mapping experience is required to start — each principle carries a contextual explanation you can read as you go.
Privacy
Everything happens in your browser. Your assessment is saved to your browser's local storage so it is waiting for you next time. You can download it as a JSON file or a PNG image to share, but nothing is ever sent to a server.
Further reading
- The doctrine grid — the assessment itself
- Wardley doctrine — the patterns explained
- Wardleypedia doctrine patterns — the source catalogue