Your first task is to define your modelling project by specifying its:
Overall Outcome
What results have you noticed other people achieve in the world that you would also like to achieve?
Sensory specific evidence of completion
How will you know you have got these results?
How will others know you have got these results?
Scope
Time scale
Breadth of project - what is included and what is not
Contexts in which you (and others) want the results
Definition of terms
Value to you
What's important to you about being able to consistently reproduce the results specified above?
Exemplars
Who consistently demonstrates the results you want?
What is your evidence?
How will you get access to such people?
Presuppositions
What are you presupposing to be true before you start?
What metaphors are you using to describe your project?
Your second task, is to plan how you are going to gather the relevant information. To help you do that see the article:
Introducing Modelling to Organisations has a chart, The Who, Why, How, What, Where and When of Modelling which uses two of Robert Dilts' frameworks to consider a modelling project from a number of perceptual positions and Logical Levels. (First published in Rapport magazine issue 40, Summer 1998)
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