Experiments

Gimmer: processes to plans

Turn process rules and resource assumptions into candidate schedules.

Lawrence’s main Petri → SMC → WBS collection: related models, generators and explanations, including earlier experiments.

Build a small refuge halfway up a cliff.

How can Petri-net processes become a WBS and schedule?

processes, wbs, schedule

Integrated risks & tasks

Cows, concrete and shared access: compare original sketches, corrected wiring, process sets and alternative executions of a small resource model.

Pour the foundations before the cows take the lane.

Can tasks and threats be understood through one process model?

processes, risk, composition, category theory

Project Co-design

Four wildlife-crossing essais: compose a complete crossing, construct a delivery path, compare programmes and size remote monitoring power.

Reconnect two habitats across a busy road.

Can a feasible finished system be delivered through acceptable stages?

co design, trade offs, staging, category theory

Bricklaying a Rotunda

A collection of experiments around project dynamics, lenses and trajectories.

Build a circular brick wall, course by course.

How can we explore changing project states?

dynamics, models, category theory

Local to Global

Two lines of enquiry: early Tangled Triangle sketches ask how AI interprets interfaces, topology and system architecture; later experiments test local-to-global consistency.

Fit a control centre onto the Tangled Triangle.

When do local project views fit together?

consistency, wbs, category theory

• Tangled Triangle: AI interpretation

Shared waters: open systems

Three corrected first attempts from the original GraphML sketches: boundary composition, organisational comparison, and explicit shared observations and capacity.

Connect an offshore depot, a power barge and their organisations.

What do open-system methods help us understand about useful project chunks?

open systems, composition, dynamics, category theory

Programme Decision Sequences

Models, worksheets, worked paths and IT decision games for acting under uncertainty. The experiments catalogue distinguishes live simulations, tutorials and historical reports.

Choose now; learn more before the next decision.

How should a programme act as uncertainty unfolds?

decisions, uncertainty, programmes

• Decision experiments and teaching apps

Gimmer: higher-autonomy experiments

Agent-led trials of package boundaries, partial progress and feedback.

A parallel Petri → SMC → WBS investigation. Agents choose bounded next steps and repeat build, test and review loops as compute permits.

The same refuge, with the awkward handovers left in.

How far can repeated agent-led experiments advance the same aim?

processes, wbs, higher autonomy

Project Spines

Six tabs on schedule spines, antichain slices, finite shed construction, review loops, vacillation boundaries and project-controls interpretation.

Build a mountain-refuge shed, one dependency at a time.

What can schedule structure reveal beyond dates?

Origin: Codex consolidation of the Hollman project-controls prototypes

schedule, project controls, posets, antichains, github pages, side project

• Earlier Hollman–Dilworth lab

Functors for Projects

Browse experiments in functors, adjoints, sheaves, wiring diagrams and finite colimits, including the grounded-theory coding illustration.

Describe one project in more than one useful way.

How might mathematical structures illuminate project work?

category theory, models, project management

• Earlier grounded-theory coding animation (visual analogy)

Building a Wall

Project wiring diagrams, beginning with a construction essay on readiness, reusable modules and computed checks, alongside eight earlier explorations.

Build a wall that is ready to receive a roof.

Can explicit interfaces turn project work into reusable blocks?

wiring diagrams, composition, readiness, category theory

• Build a house. Keep the interfaces honest.

Gimmer: broader collection

Explore procurement, observations, change and different accounts of the refuge.

Observation, binding, procurement, ontology and change experiments outside the Petri → SMC → WBS collection and higher-autonomy work.

Deliver the refuge—and keep its different accounts connected.

What other project questions can the Gimmer scenario explore?

observation, procurement, ontology, change

Solway Tunnel Ontology

Ontology and WBS experiments using a tunnel scenario, with a separate knowledge-graph audit.

Imagine delivering a tunnel beneath the Solway.

How can a project ontology connect to a plan?

ontology, wbs, knowledge graphs

• Open the kglab ontology audit

Portfolio Wave reading map

Explore the public source–project–topic projection through the Portfolio Wave view of the concepts graph.

Follow a reading idea into a project experiment.

How do sources, themes and projects connect?

knowledge graphs, sources, projects

Tag Concurrence Graph

Concepts-graph views for reading collections and a dated React app-catalogue tag map, with explicit source and refresh information.

Find connections in a shelf of tagged reading.

Which concepts occur together in reading and app collections?

knowledge graphs, sources

Knowing enough to act together

Find information arrangements that let each person choose.

Compare route cues, completion reports and direct inspections. Discover which information arrangements let the handlers choose a passage and the curator decide whether to reopen.

Move an oversized whale exhibit through a museum.

When can a physically possible move be chosen through local information?

knowledge, coordination, project state

Meta Project Innovation

An early trial of demand challenge, evidence and planning choices.

Frontier Lab explores five independent lenses on one case. Demand challenge and evidence sensors connect to this foray's original candidates; their combined practical value remains open.

Move customer data to the cloud, questioning the inherited scope.

Which changes to planning could make the project itself better?

project management, planning, evidence, innovation

Counterfactual programme steering

Inspect causal assumptions and compare simulated interventions in an early essai.

Project Causal Lab pairs a causal-graph explorer with a separate programme-policy model. An early Counterfactuals trial, with the boundary between assumptions, fitted data and causal evidence made explicit.

A delivery team considers more automation, extra staff or a lower WIP limit.

What would change if we chose a different management policy?

causality, counterfactuals, decisions, simulation

Bracken Vale: useful project interventions

Try editable models and evidence-linked drafts against an ordinary checklist, table or workshop diagram.

Practical trials explore project decisions, relationships, measures and evidence-linked drafts in a fictional railway. Inputs and results stay inspectable; practical human benefit remains to be tested.

A small railway has renewals to plan, decisions waiting and several accounts of what matters.

Which small interventions help project people see and do something useful?

project management, decisions, evidence, relationships