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- First Principles Framework (FPF) - Core Conceptual SpecificationFPF Core · FPF
About First Principles Framework (FPF) - Core Conceptual Specification
A standards-style pattern language for turning difficult engineering, research, management, and mixed human/AI work into explicit, reviewable, improvable reasoning.
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FPF-Spec.md· GitHub source - FPF LibraryGuide
About FPF Library
Methods for solving difficult problems, expanding what you can do, and continuing development.
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Readme.md· GitHub source - FPF Library Architectural ReferenceGuide
About FPF Library Architectural Reference
Architecture and connected use of the Library's pattern languages
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FPF-LIBRARY-REFERENCE.md· GitHub source - Using FPF LibraryGuide
About Using FPF Library
This is the common working instruction for people and AI agents using FPF Library, including work that develops or reviews the frameworks themselves. Apply it whenever the work relies on their methods, not only when processing an intake. Paths below are relative to the folder containing this file.
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USING-FPF.md· GitHub source DPFs42 publications
- Domain Principle Frameworks — introductionGuide
About Domain Principle Frameworks — introduction
Find a field's methods for the result you need. These 33 frameworks explain domain practice through connected patterns, with conditions, worked cases and source grounds. Use them for a current task or as contributions to continuing development; applying a method once does not require a development programme.
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DPFs/README.md· GitHub source - Decision Design Principles FrameworkDPF · PSDA
About 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.
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DPFs/DECISION-DESIGN-PRINCIPLES-FRAMEWORK.md· GitHub source - Defense and Transmission Modeling DPFDPF · DTM
About 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.
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DPFs/DEFENSE-AND-TRANSMISSION-MODELING-DPF.md· GitHub source - Economic Reasoning and Coordination Principles FrameworkDPF · ECO
About 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.
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DPFs/ECONOMIC-REASONING-AND-COORDINATION-PRINCIPLES-FRAMEWORK.md· GitHub source - Embodied Rhythmics Principles FrameworkDPF · RHY
About Embodied Rhythmics Principles Framework
A pattern language for recognizing, representing, shaping, performing, learning and observing rhythmic relations.
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DPFs/EMBODIED-RHYTHMICS-PRINCIPLES-FRAMEWORK.md· GitHub source - Explanation Design Principles FrameworkDPF · EXD
About 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.
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DPFs/EXPLANATION-DESIGN-PRINCIPLES-FRAMEWORK.md· GitHub source - Financial Domain Modeling Principles FrameworkDPF · FDM
About 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.
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DPFs/FINANCIAL-DOMAIN-MODELING-PRINCIPLES-FRAMEWORK.md· GitHub source - Implementation Facilitation Principles FrameworkDPF · IS
About 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.
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DPFs/IMPLEMENTATION-FACILITATION-PRINCIPLES-FRAMEWORK.md· GitHub source - Music and Dance Practice Engineering Principles FrameworkDPF · MDPE
About 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.
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DPFs/MUSIC-AND-DANCE-PRACTICE-ENGINEERING-PRINCIPLES-FRAMEWORK.md· GitHub source - Narrativization and Narrative Studies Principles FrameworkDPF · NSTD
About 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.
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DPFs/Narrativization-and-Narrative-Studies-Principles-Framework.md· GitHub source - Research Method Practice Principles FrameworkDPF · RMP
About 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.
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DPFs/RESEARCH-METHOD-PRACTICE-PRINCIPLES-FRAMEWORK.md· GitHub source Engineering DPF Suite6 publications
- Engineering DPF Suite — introductionGuide
About Engineering DPF Suite — introduction
Design, realize, change and sustain functioning systems. Use this Suite when you need an engineered result whose design, provision, integration and conditions of use must agree. It covers physical and software systems as well as the access and semantic arrangements on which work depends.
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DPFs/Engineering DPF Suite/README.md· GitHub source - Engineering DPF Suite Architectural ReferenceReference
About 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.
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DPFs/Engineering DPF Suite/ENGINEERING-DPF-SUITE-REFERENCE.md· GitHub source - Knowledge-Corpus Access Engineering Principles FrameworkDPF · KCAE
About Knowledge-Corpus Access Engineering Principles Framework
Methods for designing, using and changing access to documentary knowledge.
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DPFs/Engineering DPF Suite/KNOWLEDGE-CORPUS-ACCESS-ENGINEERING-PRINCIPLES-FRAMEWORK.md· GitHub source - Maintenance Engineering and Management Principles FrameworkDPF · MNT
About 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.
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DPFs/Engineering DPF Suite/MAINTENANCE-ENGINEERING-PRINCIPLES-FRAMEWORK.md· GitHub source - Semantic Integration Engineering Principles FrameworkDPF · SIE
About Semantic Integration Engineering Principles Framework
A domain pattern language for making separately governed meanings and representations usable together for a named receiving use.
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DPFs/Engineering DPF Suite/SEMANTIC-INTEGRATION-ENGINEERING-PRINCIPLES-FRAMEWORK.md· GitHub source - Systems Engineering Principles FrameworkDPF · SYSE
About 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.
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DPFs/Engineering DPF Suite/SYSTEMS-ENGINEERING-PRINCIPLES-FRAMEWORK.md· GitHub source
- Engineering DPF Suite — introductionGuide
Foundational Thinking DPF Suite7 publications
- Foundational Thinking DPF Suite — introductionGuide
About Foundational Thinking DPF Suite — introduction
Construct, justify and revise models, mathematical and physical accounts, algorithms and notation. Use this Suite when familiar formulas or operations do not yet connect into the answer you need, or a changed question makes an earlier construction inadequate.
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DPFs/Foundational Thinking DPF Suite/README.md· GitHub source - Foundational Thinking DPF Suite Architectural ReferenceReference
About 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.
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DPFs/Foundational Thinking DPF Suite/FOUNDATIONAL-THINKING-DPF-SUITE-REFERENCE.md· GitHub source - Computational Thinking DPFDPF · CMP
About Computational Thinking DPF
A pattern language for constructing, understanding, analyzing and transforming algorithms, including their interpretation and interaction.
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DPFs/Foundational Thinking DPF Suite/COMPUTATIONAL-THINKING-DPF.md· GitHub source - Mathematical Modeling DPFDPF · MMP
About Mathematical Modeling DPF
Methods for constructing mathematical representations of a question, connecting unknown relations, observations and available actions, and revising the resulting models.
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DPFs/Foundational Thinking DPF Suite/MATHEMATICAL-MODELING-PRACTICE-DPF.md· GitHub source - Mathematical Thinking DPFDPF · MATH
About Mathematical Thinking DPF
A pattern language for constructing mathematical objects, operations and arguments, using their results, and developing the next useful question.
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DPFs/Foundational Thinking DPF Suite/MATHEMATICAL-PRACTICE-DPF.md· GitHub source - Notational Engineering DPFDPF · NOT
About Notational Engineering DPF
A pattern language for designing expressions that people and computational agents can interpret, manipulate, translate and use together.
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DPFs/Foundational Thinking DPF Suite/NOTATIONAL-ENGINEERING-DPF.md· GitHub source - Physical Thinking DPFDPF · PHY
About Physical Thinking DPF
A pattern language for forming physical accounts, deriving usable consequences, constructing observations and revising the physical assumptions.
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DPFs/Foundational Thinking DPF Suite/PHYSICAL-THINKING-DPF.md· GitHub source
- Foundational Thinking DPF Suite — introductionGuide
Human Capability Engineering DPF Suite4 publications
- Human Capability Engineering DPF Suite — introductionGuide
About Human Capability Engineering DPF Suite — introduction
Help a person become able to do something, recover an ability or keep it usable. This Suite connects knowledge of how people change with methods for changing their capabilities and testing them in the work that needs them.
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DPFs/Human Capability Engineering DPF Suite/README.md· GitHub source - Human Capability Engineering DPF Suite Architectural ReferenceReference
About 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.
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DPFs/Human Capability Engineering DPF Suite/HUMAN-CAPABILITY-ENGINEERING-DPF-SUITE-REFERENCE.md· GitHub source - Human Capability Development Principles FrameworkDPF · HCD
About 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.
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DPFs/Human Capability Engineering DPF Suite/HUMAN-CAPABILITY-DEVELOPMENT-PRINCIPLES-FRAMEWORK.md· GitHub source - Somatic Movement Modeling DPFDPF · SOM
About Somatic Movement Modeling DPF
A pattern language for understanding, learning and changing the bodily contribution to a skilled human movement.
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DPFs/Human Capability Engineering DPF Suite/SOMATIC-MOVEMENT-MODELING-PRINCIPLES-FRAMEWORK.md· GitHub source
- Human Capability Engineering DPF Suite — introductionGuide
Management DPF Suite14 publications
- Management DPF Suite — introductionGuide
About Management DPF Suite — introduction
Connect direction, commitments, resources and collective work. Use this Suite when a promising direction, an accepted promise and the available means do not yet fit together, or a changed condition calls for a different commitment.
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DPFs/Management DPF Suite/README.md· GitHub source - Management DPF Suite Architectural ReferenceReference
About 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.
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DPFs/Management DPF Suite/MANAGEMENT-DPF-SUITE-REFERENCE.md· GitHub source - Community Management Principles FrameworkDPF · CB
About 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.
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DPFs/Management DPF Suite/COMMUNITY-MANAGEMENT-PRINCIPLES-FRAMEWORK.md· GitHub source - Corporate Finance Principles FrameworkDPF · FIN
About Corporate Finance Principles Framework
Methods for valuing investments, arranging finance, preserving liquidity, managing financial exposure and making corporate-finance decisions.
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DPFs/Management DPF Suite/CORPORATE-FINANCE-PRINCIPLES-FRAMEWORK.md· GitHub source - Corporate Governance Principles FrameworkDPF · CGOV
About Corporate Governance Principles Framework
A pattern language for making corporate decisions, arranging governing contributions, protecting rights and improving the ways these works are performed.
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DPFs/Management DPF Suite/CORPORATE-GOVERNANCE-PRINCIPLES-FRAMEWORK.md· GitHub source - Customization and Productization Management Principles FrameworkDPF · CUST
About Customization and Productization Management Principles Framework
Make customer-specific results and repeatable offerings supportable together.
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DPFs/Management DPF Suite/CUSTOMIZATION-AND-PRODUCTIZATION-MANAGEMENT-PRINCIPLES-FRAMEWORK.md· GitHub source - Engineering Asset Management Principles FrameworkDPF · EAM
About 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.
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DPFs/Management DPF Suite/ENGINEERING-ASSET-MANAGEMENT-PRINCIPLES-FRAMEWORK.md· GitHub source - Leadership Principles FrameworkDPF · LDR
About Leadership Principles Framework
Helping participants act together, from a needed contribution to its useful performance and continuation.
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DPFs/Management DPF Suite/LEADERSHIP-PRINCIPLES-FRAMEWORK.md· GitHub source - Management Accounting Principles FrameworkDPF · MA
About 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.
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DPFs/Management DPF Suite/MANAGEMENT-ACCOUNTING-PRINCIPLES-FRAMEWORK.md· GitHub source - Marketing Principles FrameworkDPF · MKT
About Marketing Principles Framework
Understand a customer's situation, develop an offer that can be delivered, and change commercial work in light of the result.
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DPFs/Management DPF Suite/MARKETING-PRINCIPLES-FRAMEWORK.md· GitHub source - Operations Management Principles FrameworkDPF · OPS
About Operations Management Principles Framework
A domain pattern language for admission, continuation, coordination, service, quality, improvement and performance decisions in continuing operation.
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DPFs/Management DPF Suite/OPERATIONS-MANAGEMENT-PRINCIPLES-FRAMEWORK.md· GitHub source - Organization Administration Principles FrameworkDPF · ADM
About 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.
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DPFs/Management DPF Suite/ORGANIZATION-ADMINISTRATION-PRINCIPLES-FRAMEWORK.md· GitHub source - Organization Change Engineering Principles FrameworkDPF · OCE
About Organization Change Engineering Principles Framework
A domain pattern language for changing an organization's contributions, working relations, and capability while its work continues.
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DPFs/Management DPF Suite/ORGANIZATION-CHANGE-ENGINEERING-PRINCIPLES-FRAMEWORK.md· GitHub source - Strategy Principles FrameworkDPF · STR
About 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.
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DPFs/Management DPF Suite/STRATEGY-PRINCIPLES-FRAMEWORK.md· GitHub source
- Management DPF Suite — introductionGuide
- Domain Principle Frameworks — introductionGuide