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Criterion
Paper illustration of Scrum with its method-specific working model.
Agile
Scrum
Paper illustration of Ontology Design Patterns with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Ontology Design Patterns
Paper illustration of Property Graph Schema Design with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Property Graph Schema Design
Paper illustration of Shape-first Modeling with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Shape-First Modeling
Purposedifferent
When a team needs to work in a fixed delivery rhythm, it stabilizes cadence, responsibility, and feedback loops. It makes collaboration reliable across sprint boundaries.Ontology Design Patterns provide reusable building blocks for recurring modeling problems. The method brings structure to the search for clean concepts, relationships, and roles.Property Graph Schema Design turns business and technical requirements into a robust graph schema. It fits when query patterns, constraints, and migrations need to be thought about together.Shape-First Modeling defines data quality through shapes before implementation or integration frays at the edges. The approach fits when validation and data contracts should be part of the design from the start.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
1-4 Wochen je Sprint, laufend1-3 h pro Pattern4-8 h initial, dann iterativHalber Tag pro Domain Slice
Participantsdifferent
3-10 (Scrum Team)1-61-61-4
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment, Sprint GoalSelected Patterns, Adapted Schema Fragments, Pattern DocumentationSchema Diagram, Node and Relationship Catalog, Index Plan, Migration Scripts, Sample QueriesSHACL or ShEx Shapes, Validation Reports, Data Contracts, Shape Documentation
Tagsno overlap
AgileIterationCadence
OntologyPatternsReuseSemanticModeling
Knowledge graphModelingSemantic
Knowledge graphValidationSemantic
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