Posted by John Tieso on August 28, 2000 at 08:41:04:

In Reply to: Re: Knowledge engineering posted by Robert Benjamin on August 28, 2000 at 02:56:03:

My suggestion is that a careful scoping of the problem to be solved will lead to a well-thought description of what is perceived to be currently wrong, and what a new state could look like.

Having made those observations, and assessed the process to assure that the description is valid, then methods and techniques can be chosen to assure mostly direct movement toward point B (The future state) from A (The Present state). The methods and techniques chosen will be those appropriate to the effort and your own comfort level (along with your clients) in proceeding.

The assessment of the current view should be relatively straightforward and question the descriptions provided. if you don't get the baseline right, you won't get to the future state.

What you have, then is a framework--a pattern or puzzle that you are filling in. There are lots of ways to complete a pattern or puzzle--but only a good solution makes the edges square and straight--and the pattern recognizable.

A final thought--objectivity is really hard to define and even harder to achieve. That's the reason for creating the framework or pattern early on.

Hope this helps

JT

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