The M-CaReM-AI Method: Defining Work for AI / Unit 2 MCM 031 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Formal Cause
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The idea
Formal cause answers what shape: the defining structure or pattern of a thing.
In practice
In a system, formal cause lives in domain models, service architecture, workflows, and entity and sequence diagrams.
Where people slip
The book warns that good models fail when they never become shared contracts: they stay in slide decks while developers design from stories and code.
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