14 templates
Design structure matrix templates
Dependency structure matrices for architecture and process analysis. Declare elements and their dependencies and the engine renders the square matrix, then does the analysis a picture cannot: partitioning into a sequenced, block-triangular order, detection of the cyclic blocks that must be iterated, and counts of the feedback marks above the diagonal that quantify how much rework the current sequence forces.
DSM — EV Vehicle Programme
Fifteen engineering activities of an EV programme carrying 39 dependency marks, computing that the plan's workstream ordering leaves 7 rework loops and that resequencing cuts them to 3, quarantined in three iteration blocks: battery/powertrain/thermal, body/closures/crash and the software–homologation–tooling–pilot tail.
Project & PlanningDSM — Checkout Service Coupling
Sixteen services of a commerce platform taken in the alphabetical order the service registry lists them, where partitioning turns 23 backwards call dependencies into 4 and exposes a five-service checkout core — checkout, orders, inventory, fraud scoring, payments — that no deployment order can untangle.
ArchitectureDSM — Hospital EHR Go-Live
Sixteen build and assurance activities for an electronic health record go-live, computing that the project plan's build order carries 5 rework loops and that only 2 survive partitioning, inside a five-activity order-set/interface/testing block and the medication–allergy dictionary pair.
Project & PlanningDSM — Payments Team Topology
Team DSM of eleven squads in a retail bank's payments division read in inputs-in-columns convention, turning 25 hand-off dependencies listed in org-chart order into a sequence with 3 feedback marks and naming the card/fraud/onboarding/data quartet and the treasury–reporting pair as the groups that need a shared planning cadence.
ArchitectureDSM — Goods-to-Person Retrofit
Fourteen design activities for retrofitting goods-to-person robotics into a live distribution centre, listed by engineering discipline as the vendor's scope document lists them, computing that discipline order forces 10 rework loops where the real sequence needs 3 — a four-way slotting/racking/fleet/charging sizing loop plus the pick-station and labour-model pair.
Lean & FlowDSM — MSc Programme Validation
Fifteen validation activities for a new taught master's degree taken in the order the approval form's sections ask for them, computing that 16 of the 35 dependency marks run backwards there against 3 in the partitioned sequence, and resolving the work into three negotiation pairs: modules with credits, assessment with the external examiner, and staffing with the timetable.
Project & PlanningDSM — Offshore Wind Farm Delivery
Fourteen design and commissioning activities for a 1.2 GW offshore wind farm listed by contract package, computing that package order forces 14 rework loops against 3 in the partitioned sequence and isolating the four-way grid-connection loop (consent, export cable, onshore connection, offshore substation) and the vessel-schedule/installation-sequence pair.
Project & PlanningDSM — Benefit Claim Service Redesign
Fourteen design artefacts for redesigning a public benefit claim service, computing that 8 of its 32 dependency marks are rework and partitioning them down to 2 by separating the evidence/decision/fraud rules loop from the four-way channel loop of online form, contact centre scripts, assisted digital route and accessibility audit.
Lean & FlowDSM — Retail Recommender Platform
Component DSM of a retailer's recommendation stack showing why an online learning system cannot be fully sequenced: serving, metrics, drift, retraining and the model registry close a loop that absorbs 10 of the 14 components into a single iteration block, leaving only event collection, identity resolution, the feature store and experiment assignment cleanly upstream.
AI & PipelinesDSM — Pre-Training Parameter Coupling
Parameter DSM of the fourteen design choices behind a foundation-model pre-training run, read in inputs-in-columns convention and taken in config-file order, computing that 12 of the 31 couplings run backwards there and resolving the parameters into three blocks: data mixture with vocabulary, context and evals; hidden width with layer depth; and the sharding/optimiser/batch/checkpointing memory loop.
AI & PipelinesDSM — Aircraft Cabin Retrofit
Fourteen engineering and certification activities of a widebody cabin retrofit taken in the programme plan's own order, where five irreducible rework marks are quarantined into four iteration blocks.
Project & PlanningDSM — Payments Monolith Decomposition
Fifteen modules of a payments monolith listed in package order, where partitioning cuts 15 backwards dependencies to 4 and leaves an eight-module ledger and settlement core no extraction order untangles.
ArchitectureDSM — Marketing Authorisation Dossier
Sixteen authoring and review activities for a Common Technical Document submission in module order, partitioning into a safety-summary, clinical-overview, risk-plan and labelling loop plus a quality and bioequivalence pair.
Project & PlanningApplication landscape interface matrix — before an ERP cutover
Dependency structure matrix of a retail group's 14 core applications and their 41 interfaces, partitioned to show that all but one sit in a single irreducible cycle — the integration-landscape analysis an enterprise or integration architect produces to plan an ERP cutover sequence.
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