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Lawrence Rowland explores project work through small scenarios, executable models, diagrams and source-backed explanations. This guide helps people and agents find their way through the published collection.

Home offers two entrances.

Experiments: An entrance to Experiments, Scenarios and Working views: three ways into the same exploratory work.
Library: Reusable methods, bounded worked examples and earlier material, organised by subject.

The Experiments landing page offers three routes, in this order:

Experiments: Open enquiries and exploratory collections, each with its own question and scope.
Scenarios: Familiar situations, each linking to the enquiries that use it. A scenario can support more than one method.
Working views: The nets, maps, matrices and screens used inside the examples.

Four persistent navigation shortcuts remain available: Experiments opens this landing page; Library, Scenarios and Working views open their respective collections.

Each project keeps its own question, scope and account of what its examples establish. An essay here is a trial; a useful result may be a limitation or a failed attempt. Scenarios help people think; future enquiries may change their setting or method. This guide describes the collection and leaves research direction with each project.

12 scenarios connect settings to their enquiries. Working views shows the representations used inside the examples.

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Projects: questions, scenarios and limits (19)

The names, questions, scenarios and approaches follow the public project catalogue. These short boundary notes help interpret it; follow the project's own public scope when reading or continuing an enquiry. The linked End, Ways and Means statements belong to those projects.

SMC means symmetric monoidal category; WBS means work breakdown structure. Each example explains how, and how far, it uses its named methods.

Published project entrances; links open each existing home
Project	Question	Scenario	Concepts	Scope, limits and sources
Gimmer: processes to plans	Which plans are allowed by the way the work actually happens? Lawrence’s main Petri → SMC → WBS collection: related models, generators and explanations, including earlier experiments.	Build a small refuge halfway up a cliff.	processes, WBS, schedule	Several process-to-plan constructions share this collection. Their assumptions and coverage differ; read the chosen construction's method and checks. GitHub source (may require access)
Integrated risks & tasks	Can tasks and threats be understood through one process model? Cows, concrete and shared access: compare original sketches, corrected wiring, process sets and alternative executions of a small resource model.	Pour the foundations before the cows take the lane.	processes, risk, composition, category theory	Toy resource rules, not a probability forecast or a real schedule. GitHub source (may require access)
Project Co-design	Can a feasible finished system be delivered through acceptable stages? Four wildlife-crossing essais: compose a complete crossing, construct a delivery path, compare programmes and size remote monitoring power.	Reconnect two habitats across a busy road.	co design, trade offs, staging, category theory	Synthetic capacities and costs; the model does not predict animal use. GitHub source (may require access)
Bricklaying a Rotunda	How can we explore changing project states? A collection of experiments around project dynamics, lenses and trajectories.	Build a circular brick wall, course by course.	dynamics, models, category theory	An exploratory collection of dynamics, lenses and trajectories; the chosen model's assumptions define what its paths mean. GitHub source (may require access)
Local to Global	When do local project views fit together? Two lines of enquiry: early Tangled Triangle sketches ask how AI interprets interfaces, topology and system architecture; later experiments test local-to-global consistency.	Fit a control centre onto the Tangled Triangle.	consistency, WBS, category theory	Early AI interpretations and later consistency checks are distinct lines of enquiry. A local-to-global result is tied to its stated model. GitHub source (may require access)
Shared waters: open systems	What do open-system methods help us understand about useful project chunks? Three corrected first attempts from the original GraphML sketches: boundary composition, organisational comparison, and explicit shared observations and capacity.	Connect an offshore depot, a power barge and their organisations.	open systems, composition, dynamics, category theory	First constructions of boundaries, organisations and shared observations; their computed results concern the supplied examples. GitHub source (may require access)
Programme Decision Sequences	How should a programme act as uncertainty unfolds? Models, worksheets, worked paths and IT decision games for acting under uncertainty. The experiments catalogue distinguishes live simulations, tutorials and historical reports.	Choose now; learn more before the next decision.	decisions, uncertainty, programmes	The collection distinguishes simulations, tutorials and historical reports. For example, its finite evidence model uses invented payoffs rather than forecasts. GitHub source (may require access)
Gimmer: higher-autonomy experiments	Can work packages share resources without hiding valid ways to build? A parallel Petri → SMC → WBS investigation. Agents choose bounded next steps and repeat build, test and review loops as compute permits.	The same refuge, with the awkward handovers left in.	processes, WBS, higher autonomy	Exactness depends on the declared finite object and completed search. Illustrative durations are not verified construction methods. GitHub source (may require access) Public scope and method boundaries
Project Spines	What can schedule structure reveal beyond dates? Six tabs on schedule spines, antichain slices, finite shed construction, review loops, vacillation boundaries and project-controls interpretation.	Build a mountain-refuge shed, one dependency at a time.	schedule, project controls, posets, antichains	Precedence structure and partition results do not by themselves establish a resource-feasible schedule. GitHub source (may require access)
Functors for Projects	How might mathematical structures illuminate project work? Browse experiments in functors, adjoints, sheaves, wiring diagrams and finite colimits, including the grounded-theory coding illustration.	Describe one project in more than one useful way.	category theory, models, project management	An exploratory collection, not one bounded foray or a complete project-management system. Each construction has its own mathematical and practical limits. GitHub source (may require access) Collection purpose and limits (3 October 2026 copy)
Building a Wall	Can explicit interfaces turn project work into reusable blocks? Project wiring diagrams, beginning with a construction essay on readiness, reusable modules and computed checks, alongside eight earlier explorations.	Build a wall that is ready to receive a roof.	wiring diagrams, composition, readiness, category theory	Readiness and interface checks concern the declared construction; they are not evidence of a completed real build. GitHub source (may require access)
Gimmer: broader collection	What else must we understand beyond a task list and dates? Observation, binding, procurement, ontology and change experiments outside the Petri → SMC → WBS collection and higher-autonomy work.	Deliver the refuge—and keep its different accounts connected.	observation, procurement, ontology, change	A collection of different project questions, not one uniform planning model. Read the scope of the selected essay or app. GitHub source (may require access)
Solway Tunnel Ontology	How can a project ontology connect to a plan? Ontology and WBS experiments using a tunnel scenario, with a separate knowledge-graph audit.	Imagine delivering a tunnel beneath the Solway.	ontology, WBS, knowledge graphs	An ontology, a WBS and a knowledge-graph audit answer different questions; none alone establishes tunnel feasibility. GitHub source (may require access)
Portfolio Wave reading map	How do sources, themes and projects connect? Explore the public source–project–topic projection through the Portfolio Wave view of the concepts graph.	Follow a reading idea into a project experiment.	knowledge graphs, sources, projects	A public source–project–topic projection. A link suggests a reading connection, not proof that the source establishes a project's claims. GitHub source (may require access)
Tag Concurrence Graph	Which concepts occur together in reading and app collections? Concepts-graph views for reading collections and a dated React app-catalogue tag map, with explicit source and refresh information.	Find connections in a shelf of tagged reading.	knowledge graphs, sources	Co-occurrence maps describe the indexed collection and its refresh state; an association is not a causal or semantic proof. GitHub source (may require access)
Knowing enough to act together	What must each crew know to choose its part of the move? Compare route cues, completion reports and direct inspections. Discover which information arrangements let the handlers choose a passage and the curator decide whether to reopen.	Move an oversized whale exhibit through a museum.	knowledge, coordination, project state	The museum scene is provisional. Finite checks distinguish local choice from physical possibility; they do not settle the wider enquiry or demonstrate human benefit. GitHub source (may require access) Public End, Ways and Means
Meta Project Innovation	Could we improve the project before optimising its plan? Frontier Lab explores five independent lenses on one case. Demand challenge and evidence sensors connect to this foray's original candidates; their combined practical value remains open.	Move customer data to the cloud, questioning the inherited scope.	project management, planning, evidence, innovation	Frontier Lab is one early trial of five planning lenses; it does not define the wider foray. Their combined practical value remains open. GitHub source (may require access)
Counterfactual programme steering	What would change if we chose a different management policy? Project Causal Lab pairs a causal-graph explorer with a separate programme-policy model. An early Counterfactuals trial, with the boundary between assumptions, fitted data and causal evidence made explicit.	A delivery team considers more automation, extra staff or a lower WIP limit.	causality, counterfactuals, decisions, simulation	A causal-graph explorer and a separate policy model. Supplied assumptions, fitted data and causal evidence must remain distinct. GitHub source (may require access)
Bracken Vale: useful project interventions	Which small interventions help project people see and do something useful? Practical trials explore project decisions, relationships, measures and evidence-linked drafts in a fictional railway. Inputs and results stay inspectable; practical human benefit remains to be tested.	A small railway has renewals to plan, decisions waiting and several accounts of what matters.	project management, decisions, evidence, relationships	Fictional project trials with inspectable inputs and results. First-version coverage does not establish adoption or practical human benefit. GitHub source (may require access) Public End, Ways and Means (3 October 2026 copy)

Library subjects and evidence boundaries

Library placement means a reusable or more established example has a home; it does not certify the method. A model check, a working interface, mathematical proof and demonstrated human benefit are different kinds of evidence. Read the selected example's assumptions, source uses and limits.

Project states & relationships — Connect tasks, states, people and resources. Explore shared project models, process diagrams and the relationships behind a portfolio. (18 entries)
Decisions & trade-offs — Frame a decision, compare competing objectives, and inspect what buffer, delay assumptions and new information change. (14 entries)
Delivery dynamics & feedback — Explore dependency loops, learning, rework, reviews and site occupancy through deliberately small models. (14 entries)
Data, evidence & assurance — Match methods to the available information. Examine data maturity, project controls and what earlier prediction experiments could establish. (13 entries)
Capabilities & futures — Explore the practices, capabilities and tools a portfolio might need, with earlier reading, framework guides and clearly labelled future scenarios. (16 entries)
Custom GPTs — coaches, co-pilots and agents for thinking through project work.

Further shelves: Wider interest · Sitemap. Wider interest has 8 pictured entries.

Reading the pictures (111 views)

Working views collects the nets, maps, matrices and screens used inside the examples, rather than project emblems or scene illustrations. Read the caption, depicted state and limitation before opening the example. A screenshot records one view; it does not prove the model’s claims or show its current state. Text descriptions and source links remain available when pictures or interaction are unavailable.

Hover or focus for a hint; open a picture for its caption, “Look for”, “Keep in mind” and “View shown”. The preview links to the full image and its original example. Read all visual descriptions in Markdown.

Home 2

Experiments 3

Experiments 19

19 enquiries and collections

Gimmer: processes to plans 16
16 example entrances
Sixteen numbered apps in the Processes to plans catalogue. Repeated featured links count once.
Integrated risks & tasks 1
1 example entrances
One essay and interactive lane model with several representations, not a separate app per section.
1. The shared-lane process exploration 0
Project Co-design 4
4 example entrances
Four separately modelled essays, with one distinct app per question.
Bricklaying a Rotunda 7
7 example entrances
Seven maintained essay entrances. Companion sources and method pages are not additional experiments.
Local to Global 8
8 example entrances
Seven later essays and one early-interpretation hub. The hub opens into six distinct variants; the two enquiry purposes remain separate.
Shared waters: open systems 3
3 example entrances
The three corrected first attempts, one page each.
Programme Decision Sequences 8
8 example entrances
Eight catalogue entries, including the clearly labelled historical report and the original model on the home page.
Gimmer: higher-autonomy experiments 8
8 example entrances
Six current labs and two explicitly earlier graph views. The inherited comparison in the broader Gimmer collection is not counted again.
1. Boundary Contract Lab 0
2. Feedback-to-Plan 0
3. Marking-to-Plan 0
4. Process Contract Lab 0
5. Causal Plan Lab 0
6. Process-to-Plan Lab 0
7. Earlier project graph 0
8. Earlier multilayer graph 0
Project Spines 6
6 example entrances
Six named views reached by maintained tab fragments. Three are embedded standalone pages and three are native views.
Functors for Projects 16
16 example entrances
Sixteen entries in the opening catalogue. This is an exploratory collection, not one bounded foray.
Building a Wall 11
11 example entrances
Eleven entries in the app catalogue linked from the head. The opening page itself features one of them.
Gimmer: broader collection 13
13 example entrances
Twelve primary apps plus the separately labelled comparison entrance to shared App 20. That comparison is not another implementation.
Solway Tunnel Ontology 14
14 example entrances
Thirteen app-catalogue entries plus the broader ontology route linked from the head. The opening page features four direct examples; this count includes the catalogue.
Portfolio Wave reading map 1
1 example entrances
One live reading map. Outbound papers and forays are evidence and connections, not child apps.
1. Follow an idea into an enquiry 0
Tag Concurrence Graph 3
3 example entrances
Three reading or catalogue graph views. The separately listed Portfolio Wave reading map is not counted again.
Knowing enough to act together 1
1 example entrances
The opening page is itself one essay and live model.
1. Can we move the whale? 0
Meta Project Innovation 1
1 example entrances
One Frontier Lab app with five internal modes. The modes do not have independently activated URL routes.
1. Frontier Lab — five lenses on the same project 0
Counterfactual programme steering 1
1 example entrances
One essay and app containing causal-path and policy-simulation modes. The two modes are not one fitted model.
1. Project Causal Lab — causal paths and policy simulation 0
Bracken Vale: useful project interventions 33
33 example entrances
Thirty-two app cards and one narrative essay. These are named public entries, not thirty-three validated methods.
1. Small interventions, useful questions — the essai 0
2. Which account applies? 0
3. Whose outcome? 0
4. A connection has a kind 0
5. The constraint moves 0
6. A trial worth having 0
7. A signal worth seeing 0
8. Small enough to agree 0
9. Keep the recipe 0
10. What applies here? 0
11. A route that fits 0
12. A meeting with a decision 0
13. Checked in what sense? 0
14. Useful elsewhere? 0
15. Learn from the case 0
16. Ready on the first pass? 0
17. The missing link 0
18. A gate with reasons 0
19. What is in the tables? 0
20. Make retreat possible 0
21. What did the task list miss? 0
22. A draft is not a gate 0
23. Try one office job 0
24. Keep the disagreement 0
25. Remember before deciding 0
26. Find the story in the pattern 0
27. The work of getting better 0
28. Practise on the artefact 0
29. What does that number mean? 0
30. Know now, act later? 0
31. The shape of waiting 0
32. Spend attention carefully 0
33. The shared dependency 0

Named entrances from each opening page or its linked catalogue. The counts do not rank their maturity or claim completeness.

Compare the Gimmer approaches 0

Scenarios 12

12 scenarios

Gimmer refuge 5
5 enquiries in this setting
The farm track 1
1 enquiries in this setting
- Tasks, risks and shared access 0
A wildlife crossing 4
4 enquiries in this setting
A brick rotunda 2
2 enquiries in this setting
- Choices and histories 0
- What must a state remember? 0
The Tangled Triangle 2
2 enquiries in this setting
- Interpret the site 0
- Test the local rules 0
Shared waters 3
3 enquiries in this setting
A wall and its roof 3
3 enquiries in this setting
A tunnel beneath the Solway 1
1 enquiries in this setting
- From an outcome to its work 0
Moving the museum whale 1
1 enquiries in this setting
- Knowing enough to act together 0
Bracken Vale railway 1
1 enquiries in this setting
- Small interventions, useful questions 0
The mountain-festival shuttle 1
1 enquiries in this setting
- Evidence before commitment 0
The Island Reading Room 1
1 enquiries in this setting
- Policies in conversation 0

One familiar situation can support several different enquiries. Their example lists sit in the Experiments branch.

Working views 111

111 working views

The representations used inside the examples.

Library 8

8 collections and entrances

Project states & relationships 18
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Decisions & trade-offs 14
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Delivery dynamics & feedback 14
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Data, evidence & assurance 13
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Capabilities & futures 16
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Custom GPTs 0
Wider interest 8
8 pictured entries
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About Lawrence and this collection 0