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Paper illustration of Shape-first Modeling with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Shape-First Modeling
Paper illustration for Causal Factor Analysis.
Operations
Causal Factor Analysis
Paper illustration of Competency Questions with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Competency Questions
Purposedifferent
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.For an event with a complicated course, the method breaks down the contributing factors along the timeline. It shows how conditions, decisions, and reactions together produce a course of events.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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MediumHighMedium
Timedifferent
Halber Tag pro Domain Slice2-6 h2-4 h
Participantsdifferent
1-43-102-8
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Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
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SHACL or ShEx Shapes, Validation Reports, Data Contracts, Shape DocumentationEvent Timeline, Causal Factor Chart, Cause List, Corrective ActionsCompetency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage Matrix
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Knowledge graphValidationSemantic
CausalityIncidentRoot causeTimeline
OntologyKnowledge graphScopeRequirementsSemantic
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