The modeling community is responsible for making a number of working agreements, such as: ul>
The modeling community does this by:
- Ensuring the design and conventions for the repository
- Developing architectural and modeling conventions
- Provides training regarding the repository design and the modeling method
- Review developments
- Stimulate communication and interaction within the community
Inside the modeling community should jointly introduce the above-mentioned working agreements. Depending on the structure and culture of the organization, different scenarios can be chosen to achieve this
Intervision session
The modeling community jointly determines what the conventions surrounding modeling are. Within intervision sessions, all participants can submit topics, examples and modeling problems that are discussed and based on discussion, a joint decision is made about the method to be followed and, if desired, the adapted modeling conventions
Characteristic of the intervision session are
- On a regular basis a session organized for all modellers
- In these sessions the various participants bring in questions, solutions and suggestions
- Works well in small teams
Model manager
Another scenario is that a model manager role plays a pioneering role in introducing a modeling community. The model manager is more active and the modeling community is more passive.
Characteristics of the model manager are:
- Model manager determines bottlenecks and chooses a solution approach
- Sometimes a model core team is deployed for support
- Model manager coƶ ordinates describing the decisions in the repository or help pages
- Works well with large teams
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