DPFs

42 publications. Open a title to read, or expand its contents below.

Read the Suite introduction — Domain Principle Frameworks

Community Management Principles Framework

Use this framework when people need useful participation, relationships or joint contributions: help one another, take part in a valued activity, keep shared work feasible, or make their experience useful elsewhere. A community organiser, participant, practitioner, sponsor or assisting agent can enter at the difficulty already present. When the proposed community is meant to support a wider cultural purpose, CB.1 also helps decide whether that purpose needs a community contribution at all.

Contents · 16 patterns

Computational Thinking DPF

A pattern language for constructing, understanding, analyzing and transforming algorithms, including their interpretation and interaction.

Contents · 15 patterns

Corporate Finance Principles Framework

Methods for valuing investments, arranging finance, preserving liquidity, managing financial exposure and making corporate-finance decisions.

Contents · 22 patterns

Corporate Governance Principles Framework

A pattern language for making corporate decisions, arranging governing contributions, protecting rights and improving the ways these works are performed.

Contents · 17 patterns

Customization and Productization Management Principles Framework

Make customer-specific results and repeatable offerings supportable together.

Contents · 8 patterns

Decision Design Principles Framework

A domain pattern language for constructing problem formulations, decision alternatives and models, and qualifying their interpretation and use in bounded inquiry, including professional participation and advice.

Contents · 18 patterns

Defense and Transmission Modeling DPF

A pattern language for explaining how practices continue and spread, how they help or impair work, and how protective action changes those outcomes.

Contents · 9 patterns

Economic Reasoning and Coordination Principles Framework

A pattern language for connecting different plans and knowledge with scarce means through calculation, exchange, commitments and economic arrangements.

Contents · 10 patterns

Embodied Rhythmics Principles Framework

A pattern language for recognizing, representing, shaping, performing, learning and observing rhythmic relations.

Contents · 14 patterns

Engineering Asset Management Principles Framework

A domain pattern language for making and revising value-oriented decisions about engineered assets over their lives, for one asset, an interacting asset System or a portfolio.

Contents · 16 patterns

Explanation Design Principles Framework

Help a recipient recover and use a warranted connection by choosing the question, account, expression and support that the situation needs.

Contents · 6 patterns

Financial Domain Modeling Principles Framework

Financial Domain Modeling helps a financial practitioner, business modeler or service designer establish whose financial position a model describes, what events can change it and how a service contributes to a participant's result. Its five methods connect parties, rights and obligations, contractual flows, actual effects and service use.

Contents · 5 patterns

Human Capability Development Principles Framework

HCD is a pattern language for deriving human capability demand from later Work, designing and sustaining development arrangements, judging human contribution, transfer and retention, and evaluating instructional material under stated audience, task, support and time conditions.

Contents · 29 patterns

Implementation Facilitation Principles Framework

Implementation Facilitation helps practitioners, organizations and affected people make an evidence-informed practice usable in its setting and develop their ability to conduct subsequent changes. Enter at the missing contribution; a sufficient local answer can be enough. The examples below show ordinary entries, not a catalogue or the field boundary. Use the pattern index for a different question.

Contents · 7 patterns

Knowledge-Corpus Access Engineering Principles Framework

Methods for designing, using and changing access to documentary knowledge.

Contents · 11 patterns

Leadership Principles Framework

Helping participants act together, from a needed contribution to its useful performance and continuation.

Contents · 3 patterns

Maintenance Engineering and Management Principles Framework

Maintenance methods connect a condition or failure account with the result someone needs, such as advice, a selected intervention, functioning evidence, return to use or a programme decision. Each connection consumes a particular result. A suitable spare supports readiness; readiness and an operating allowance support a feasible intervention; performed work identifies the configuration to be tested; functioning evidence supports the receiving operating decision.

Contents · 16 patterns

Management Accounting Principles Framework

Management Accounting helps a controller, accountant or manager explain how work uses resources and how that use appears in money, forecasts and performance accounts. Begin with the decision or account that needs a better explanation. A small model of the relevant work can be sufficient.

Contents · 9 patterns

Marketing Principles Framework

Understand a customer's situation, develop an offer that can be delivered, and change commercial work in light of the result.

Contents · 14 patterns

Mathematical Modeling DPF

Methods for constructing mathematical representations of a question, connecting unknown relations, observations and available actions, and revising the resulting models.

Contents · 17 patterns

Mathematical Thinking DPF

A pattern language for constructing mathematical objects, operations and arguments, using their results, and developing the next useful question.

Contents · 20 patterns

Music and Dance Practice Engineering Principles Framework

A domain pattern language for creating, performing, transmitting, and deliberately developing music and dance practices and the environments that sustain them.

Contents · 22 patterns

Narrativization and Narrative Studies Principles Framework

This framework helps turn material with connected ideas, events or constraints into a narrative that a reader can follow and use. The work includes choosing what must survive, deciding its order, designing the reader's route and repairing misleading or unhelpful explanations. The entries below are selected examples, not a catalogue or coverage boundary. Bring the actual question; use the Table of Contents or a direct pattern when no example fits. Some difficulties need one bounded repair; others need several patterns working together. For a question already answered by one pattern, use its PatternID and title in the Table of Contents.

Contents · 8 patterns

Notational Engineering DPF

A pattern language for designing expressions that people and computational agents can interpret, manipulate, translate and use together.

Contents · 8 patterns

Operations Management Principles Framework

A domain pattern language for admission, continuation, coordination, service, quality, improvement and performance decisions in continuing operation.

Contents · 28 patterns

Organization Administration Principles Framework

ADM helps administrators examine administrative requests, give justified refusals and provide usable results under the organization's rules. Its fifteen patterns also help improve the arrangements supporting this work by connecting organizational rules, participants, permissions, work and records. Establish any permission required for the action being taken; specialist decisions remain with the people authorized to make them.

Contents · 15 patterns

Organization Change Engineering Principles Framework

A domain pattern language for changing an organization's contributions, working relations, and capability while its work continues.

Contents · 17 patterns

Physical Thinking DPF

A pattern language for forming physical accounts, deriving usable consequences, constructing observations and revising the physical assumptions.

Contents · 10 patterns

Research Method Practice Principles Framework

A research repertoire for qualifying a question, choosing and conducting a defensible inquiry, examining and returning its knowledge contribution, and retaining or improving the Methods that serve it.

Contents · 11 patterns

Semantic Integration Engineering Principles Framework

A domain pattern language for making separately governed meanings and representations usable together for a named receiving use.

Contents · 12 patterns

Somatic Movement Modeling DPF

A pattern language for understanding, learning and changing the bodily contribution to a skilled human movement.

Contents · 5 patterns

Strategy Principles Framework

Each pattern starts with a recognizable working situation, the useful result and an ordinary non-use boundary. Its Solution explains the action; its case makes a consequential choice or stop visible. Conformance and evidence guidance help test the particular result without turning recognition into proof.

Contents · 17 patterns

Systems Engineering Principles Framework

A domain pattern language for bringing about and changing engineered Systems, from their intended use and architecture to realization, assurance, and continuing development.

Contents · 53 patterns

References and other texts

Engineering DPF Suite
Methods for designing, realizing, changing and sustaining functioning systems.
Engineering DPF Suite Architectural Reference
Understand the Engineering Suite’s composition and boundaries, find a method for your working question, and see how methods from different fields contribute to one decision.
Foundational Thinking DPF Suite
Mathematical Thinking · Mathematical Modeling · Physical Thinking · Computational Thinking · Notational Engineering
Foundational Thinking DPF Suite Architectural Reference
Find the mathematical, physical, computational, modeling or notational contribution your question needs, and understand how the contributions work together.
Human Capability Engineering DPF Suite
Human Capability Engineering connects knowledge of how people change with Methods for forming, changing, restoring and sustaining their capabilities. The human is the holder whose capability is at issue; a teacher, assisting AI or provider organization may perform part of the work.
Human Capability Engineering DPF Suite Architectural Reference
This account explains the Human Capability Engineering DPF Suite to people and capable assisting agents choosing or connecting its Methods. It describes the learning and somatic part supplied by HCD and SOM, the larger engineering subject to which that part contributes, and the boundaries that change a user's next move. A familiar Method can be used directly without reading the account in order.
Management DPF Suite
Management connects direction, commitments, provision and performance so that a collective undertaking can make and sustain promises under actual conditions. The undertaking can be a business, public service, temporary collaboration or voluntary community. A shared employer is unnecessary; the contributions, authority and resources on which others rely must have an actual basis.
Management DPF Suite Architectural Reference
Management concerns choosing and sustaining the direction, commitments and provision of a collective undertaking, and changing them when the results or conditions warrant it. The undertaking may be a company, public service, professional practice, temporary collaboration or voluntary community. Its participants can have different purposes and decision rights. A shared employer is unnecessary; an actual basis for making and relying on a contribution is necessary.