Advanced Process Architectures

4/13/97


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Advanced Process Architectures

SEI’s Ontology

The Process Interface

Process Means Context

Two Ways to Approach Process

Exploring the Middle of the Interface

Process Has Two Major Aspects

The Map is not the Territory, . . .

For a Map to Be Useful . . .

Invisible Lines Are Drawn

Non-dual View on Process

ETVX Snapshots

Non-dual view on Process

Reification

Non-dual View on Process

Disconnection

Non-dual View on Process

Metrics

Non-dual View on Process

Advanced Architectures

Abstractions

Objectives of Process Architecture

Benefits of Process Architecture

Process Has Full Developmental Lifecycle

Principle: Maturity Independence

Principle: Temporal Independence

Analogy

Kinds of Work

Corporations

Principle: Organizing Complexity

Interpenetration

Isolating Kinds of Work

Dataflow Model of Kinds of Work

Kinds of Work at Meta-Level Two

Kinds of Work at Meta-Level Three

Kinds of Work at Meta-Level Four

The Hyperspace of Work

Overlapping Kinds of Work

Quality versus Quantity

Hierarchy of kinds of work

Engineering Process Hierarchy

Product Development Processes

Developmental Processes

Software Design Process

Example Description Format

Common Processes Across Engineering

Paths Between Processes

Non-Routine Work

Role and Agent Relationship

Agents are . . .

Roles are . . .

Non-Routine Work and Roles

Fundamental Views of Instantiation

Facets of the Management of Enactment

Product Data Management

Time Management

Personnel Management

Process Description Management

Causal Control Structures

Causal Structure: Life-cycle Template

Instantiation of Activities

Types of Causality

There Are Many Ways of Relating to the World

Ways of Relating to the World

Pure Presence

Showing and Hiding Gestalts

Processes are Partial Systems

Breakpoints

What Is a Meta-System

The Visible and the Invisible

Process Meta-Systems

Rhizome

Domains

Process Domain

Primary Process

Secondary Process

Tertiary Processes

Different Views of Processes

Representations of Processes

Types of Humanistic Inquiry

Humanitarian Viewpoints on Processes

Phenomenology

Structuralism

Hermeneutics

Dialectics

Heuristic Research

How We Should Approach Processes . . .

Possible Life-Cycles

Spirals

Spiral Life-cycle

Enactment Model

Process Horizon

Breakdown and Breakpoints

How to Talk About What Actually Happens

Variety and Viability

How Should We Guide What Actually Happens?

Rationalization of Enactment

Work Is Sporadic and Occurs in Spurts

Spirals Are Natural Flows for Work

Teleonomy

Teleonomy Is the Key to Spiraling

Variety Reduction

Actualities

How Things Work

How Things Should Work

Inadequate Optimization

Creation and Destruction of Work

Neg-entropy

Autopoietic Processes

Process Description Flexibility

Chaotic Model of Processes

Chaotic Work Attractors

Magicians

Magician Meta-System Life-Cycle

Magician Meta-System Life-Cycle Process

Magical Workplay Model

All Modalities Supported

Scaling Back the Magician Model

The Magical Process

Author: Kent Palmer

Email: kent@palmer.name

Home Page: http://dialog.net

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