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Abstractions that share only loose connective tissue around designing and organizing work, spanning engineering and design practices (cardboard modeling, design for the environment, virtuality in software design), process and project methods (business-process modeling, project management, mobile DevOps), and business-organizational concepts (industrial market segmentation, virtual business model, production budget).

18 abstractions in this family — domain-specific abstractions that sit near one another in structural-signature space (k-means over structural-signature embeddings). Each is shown with its short description.

  • Architectural decision — In software engineering and software architecture design, architectural decisions are design decisions that address architecturally significant requirements; they are perceived as hard to make and/or costly to change.
  • Business-Process Modeling — Business process modeling (BPM) is the action of modeling processes of an enterprise.
  • Cardboard Modeling — Cardboard modeling or cardboard engineering is a form of modelling with paper, card stock, paperboard, and corrugated fiberboard.
  • Design for the environment — Design for the environment (DfE) is a design approach to reduce the overall human health and environmental impact of a product, process or service, where impacts are considered across its life cycle.
  • Ecosystem Mismatch — Explain why a technically sound innovation stalls on deployment not by a flaw in the artifact but by the absence of one specific complementary asset its operating context tacitly required — leaving it complete-but-functionally-blocked.
  • GQM+Strategies — Link organizational goals and strategies to lower-level goals and measurement plans so evidence can test strategic alignment.
  • Industrial market segmentation — Industrial market segmentation is a scheme for categorizing industrial and business customers to guide strategic and tactical decision-making.
  • Logico-linguistic modeling — Logico-linguistic modeling is a method for building knowledge-based systems with a learning capability using conceptual models from soft systems methodology, modal predicate logic, and logic programming languages such as Prolog.
  • Metadata modeling — Metadata modeling is a type of metamodeling used in software engineering and systems engineering for the analysis and construction of models applicable to and useful for some predefined class of problems.
  • Mobile DevOps — Mobile DevOps is a set of practices that applies the principles of DevOps specifically to the development of mobile applications.
  • Multidivisional Form — Organize a firm into operating divisions beneath a strategic general office that systematically appraises and coordinates them.
  • Network Function Virtualization — Network function virtualization (NFV) is a network architecture concept that leverages IT virtualization technologies to virtualize entire classes of network node functions into building blocks that may connect, or chain together, to create and deliver communication services.
  • Organizational structure — An organizational structure defines how activities such as task allocation, coordination, and supervision are directed toward the achievement of organizational aims.
  • Overall Labor Effectiveness — Overall labor effectiveness (OLE) is a key performance indicator (KPI) that measures the utilization, performance, and quality of the workforce and its impact on productivity.
  • Production budget — Production budget is a term used specifically in film production and, more generally, in business.
  • Project management — Project management is the process of supervising the work of a team to achieve all project goals within the given constraints.
  • Virtual business model — A virtual business model is a way to organize a startup company.
  • Virtuality (software design) — Virtuality is a term used by Ted Nelson for what he considers one of the central issues of software design. "Virtuality" refers to the seeming of anything, as opposed to its reality.