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Criterion
Paper illustration of Shape-first Modeling with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Shape-First Modeling
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Paper illustration of an assumption matrix with prioritized test cards
Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
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.Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting.Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowLowMedium
Timedifferent
Halber Tag pro Domain Slice30 min Setup, dann laufend45-90 min2-4 h
Participantsdifferent
1-41-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone2-82-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
SHACL or ShEx Shapes, Validation Reports, Data Contracts, Shape DocumentationRAID Log, Status Report SourceAssumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning PlanCompetency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage Matrix
Tagsno overlap
Knowledge graphValidationSemantic
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery
OntologyKnowledge graphScopeRequirementsSemantic
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