After much deliberation amongst myselves, I decided to release page four of the CI Development Cycle series, even though (by itself) it has little more than a general justification for the advanced subject material. After careful consideration of how parts of the prospective content could be re-used in other contexts1, it became clear that additional supporting pages should be created first. As previously noted, that was the concept behind deferral of that page for completion of Topical Analysis and Topical Parameterization. I had originally hoped that it would all fit on one page, but there was a collision with an as-yet unreleased series of subjects.
The underlying issue is that, while the first three pages mostly describe concrete tasks that are predominately “design”, the last page deals with abstract practices that are strongly System Engineering in nature. In fact, many Designers never progress past the first three subject sets (but are still pretty good at what they do).
Be advised, therefore, that the links at the bottom of that page do not yet lead to anything. Of course, by the time anybody actually reads this post, they probably will…in which case, never mind.
More to come.
Footnotes- That is, a Commonality Analysis of sorts.[↩]