VMODEL
MODEL BUILDING BLOCKS


Causes
These relators help you show what is causing the change in the model target. All causes show how the things in your model affect parameters. They let you get feedback from the coach when you're done.

These relationships affect parameters. Sometimes, in systems, more than one thing affects something. Therefore, more than one "causes" arrow can go to a single parameter, as long as they're the same kind. In other words, any parameter can have more than one direct influence from different processes come to it. Or a parameter can have more than indirect influence arrow at the same time. But, it can't have a direct and an indirect one at the same time.

DIRECT INFLUENCES: The ways that processes affect things in your model

These are the most important relationships in a Vmodel model. Unless you have an increases or a decreases link in your model, nothing happens in your model.

Increases
When a process increases an amount or level or any other parameter, use this. This is a one way relationship. More information :

Decreases
When a process decreases an amount or level or any other parameter, use this. This is a one way relationship. More information:

INDIRECT INFLUENCES: Passing on the effects of processes to other parameters

These are important links, because they show how different parameters are related to each other. They are for describing how one thing changes when another one does.

The influences links don't change things by themselves. You need a process before anything can change in your model. You can think of them as the ways that the increases and decreses get passed on to other parameters.

Influences
When one measurable goes up or down the other does too. This is a one way relationship. More information :

Opposite-influences
When one measurable goes up or down the other does the opposite. This is a one way relationship. More information :

TOP LEVEL of HELP 

Help on how to make and understand a Vmodel model
Help on the model building blocks
 

 VMODEL
HELP