Conceptual structure
Identifies key concepts to focus on
- Identifies a set of concepts, relationships among the concepts and rules
- Restrict attention to certain aspects of IS and others are ignored
- Underpins all types of method knowledge
Conceptual structure is often application- or domain specific
- One key reason why so many methods exist!
Some method developers formalize the conceptual structures (e.g. UML) whereas most others don’t
Metamodeling deals mostly with the conceptual structures