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Decision Making
Argument Mapping
Paper illustration of Competency Questions with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Competency Questions
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Decision Making
Decision Rights Mapping
Purposedifferent
When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on.Competency Questions translate a domain model into concrete questions that it must be able to answer. The method keeps the model's scope clean and prevents pretty but useless structures.In organizations with many stakeholders, it often blurs who actually decides and who is merely consulted. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as a Decision Rights matrix and an agreement.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 h2-4 h90-180 min
Participantsdifferent
1-82-84-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Argument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision RationaleCompetency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage MatrixDecision Rights Matrix, Agreement
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SensemakingDecisionRationale
OntologyKnowledge graphScopeRequirementsSemantic
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