Kwantu Inputs of the App generation engine - kwantu/platformconfiguration GitHub Wiki

The Kwantu app generation engine requires the following input framework:

1. What does a Kwantu app model?

• An app relates to business processes. For this reason it has a flexibly configurable hierarchical workflow engine to accommodate multilevel business process steps.
• An app records & manages a transaction of interaction between two business entities the remain relatively static. (For example: a sale of an item to a customer resulting in an invoice)
• How to understand and model a business process. Business processes are best modelled using the Tetrarch method. That is to say, begin with a top level of (7 +- 1) steps that represent the whole process from end to end. Then expand each business step into a second layer of greater detail of (7 +- 1) steps. Repeat this process as many times as necessary to ensure that every step is broken down to its atomic components.
• principles and rules that define an app...

2. How is hierarchy modelled in the app?

Hierarchy is modelled in an app as a multilevel set of steps, each level representing a finer grain on the one before, like an inverted tree structure.

• what is a profile. A profile is ...
• do we need sub-profiles?

3. How are things organised in an app?

• Hierarchy. Everything in the app is arranged into hierarchy in the tetrarch style. This includes the configuration files and the files that are output by the application generation engine.

4. How are app resources shared?

• Data Objects and Taxonomy

5. What defines the boundaries between apps?

• Explain the building blocks & what they are suited for.
• Guiding principles and examples.