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Gemba Walk workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Operations
Gemba Walk
Paper illustration of Ontology Design Patterns with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Ontology Design Patterns
Paper illustration of Competency Questions with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Competency Questions
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When there is uncertainty about the real course of a process, the method brings observation to the place where work happens. It combines perception, follow-up questions, and process knowledge so decisions rest on actual workflows instead of assumptions.Ontology Design Patterns provide reusable building blocks for recurring modeling problems. The method brings structure to the search for clean concepts, relationships, and roles.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.
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LowMediumMedium
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30-120 min1-3 h pro Pattern2-4 h
Participantsdifferent
2-61-62-8
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WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
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Observation Notes, Improvement IdeasSelected Patterns, Adapted Schema Fragments, Pattern DocumentationCompetency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage Matrix
Tagsno overlap
LeanObservationProcessOperations
OntologyPatternsReuseSemanticModeling
OntologyKnowledge graphScopeRequirementsSemantic
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Paper illustration of NeOn Methodology with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
NeOn Methodology
Paper illustration of Property Graph Schema Design with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Property Graph Schema Design
A3 Problem-Solving workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Operations
A3 Problem Solving
Paper illustration for Kaizen Event.
Operations
Kaizen Event