Experience Inventory

Experience Inventory is a structured account of the reusable models an organization, profession, or model-producing system already possesses and the areas where explicit models are still missing.

The Asset Being Inventoried

The useful unit is not a stored lesson, anecdote, ticket, or document. It is a released reusable model or model component that represents how a process, decision, or domain behaves within a defined scope.

A model inventory can include process models, state models, rule sets, decision structures, reusable components, and compositions of smaller models. Each item should have a defined scope, source basis, verification status, version, and known applications.

Why Inventory Matters

Without an inventory, organizations repeatedly begin from a blank page. One group may reconstruct a model that another group already possesses. Software projects may encode the same domain logic independently. Training materials and automation may diverge because they rely on different implicit understandings.

An inventory makes reuse visible before new interpretation begins.

Coverage and Gaps

The inventory should show more than what exists. It should reveal where model coverage is incomplete. Useful questions include:

• Which recurring processes already have reusable models?
• Which domains contain only descriptive sources?
• Which models are current, and what is their verification status for their declared scopes?
• Which models depend on unresolved conditions or missing facts?
• Which components are shared across multiple larger models?

This turns model production into portfolio development rather than isolated project work.

Compounding Value

A mature inventory can become a starting point for new applications in the domains it covers. Existing components can be reused, composed, tested again, or extended through new released models. The larger and better structured the inventory becomes, the less often reusable model structure must be reconstructed from source material.

Experience Inventory is therefore the visible portfolio of reusable models already produced through Experience Capitalization.