Abstract
Though the seminal Rasmussen Decision Ladder (DL) (Rasmussen, 1981) was expressed in information processing framework and terminology, variations of the DL have been created, such as those by Lintern (2011) and Cummings (2003). This paper reports a further extension of the method of the DL to decompose macrocognitive work. In particular, the upward leg of the classic DL is reinterpreted as a sensemaking activity and the downward leg as a flexcution activity. This scheme for story telling was applied satisfactorily in a project that modeled workflows in intelligence analysis. This paper highlights the degrees of freedom available to cognitive systems engineers in the analysis of workflows for activities that are heavily cognitive and team-based.
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