VMODEL
STEPS IN MAKING A MODEL


 TARGET   Plan   Describe   Build   Check 

 Make a model target (View the target screen.)

The model target is the thing you are trying to explain with the model.

A Vmodel model is used to explain why something changes or stays steady over time or to predict why something might change. The only way we know if something changes over time is by measuring it, so the model target should be something that you might measure in numbers. (In Vmodel terms, the thing that is changing is a measurable of something in your model.) The model target should specify the thing, the measurable thing about it that is changing, and also whether it is increasing, decreasing, staying the same.

Here are a few examples of model targets: .

The level of the water in the bathtub is going down.

John's temperature is increasing.

The cost of computers is going up.

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