Understand the hierarchy of guidelines

This page describes and illustrates with an example the hierarchy of guidelines  used to organise any EKD-CMM guideline available in this electronic guidebook. The description is given in the left part whereas the example is shown in the right part.

 Guidelines are organised in intention graphs  

Each alternative of a Choice guideline is a guideline too. It belongs to one of the three types, Choice, Plan, and Executable. For instance, the alternative "Follow goal deployment strategy" is a Plan Guideline shown below.	Construct change process model   Select your alternative    Follow goal deployment strategy   Arguments for alternative 1 Follow participative strategy Arguments for alternative 2
Each step of a Plan Guideline is a guideline too. It belongs to one of the three types, Choice, Plan, and Executable. For instance, the step "Construct a hierarchy of change goals" is an Executable Guideline shown below.	Follow goal deployment strategy  Follow these steps    Construct a hierarchy of change goals  Description  of step 1 Attach processes Description of step 2
Therefore, as illustrated in this example, EKD-CMM guidelines are organised in a hierarchical manner through successive refinements (alternatives) and decompositions (steps). The leaves of a hierarchy are Executable Guidelines.	Construct a hierarchy of change goals Perform the following activities     Activity  Techniques and tools Comments Determine impact EKD-goal model editor   Identify new goals Interview domain experts, GroupSystem, PlasticWall.   Introduce new goals EKD-goal model editor

                        

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