Porous Materials

{
  "id": "TRIZ-31",
  "title": "Porous Materials",
  "intent": "Increase adaptability and resilience by allowing controlled permeability instead of enforcing total isolation.",
  "triz_principle": {
    "number": 31,
    "name": "Porous Materials",
    "definition": "Make an object porous or add porous elements to allow controlled passage of substances or signals."
  },
  "problem_understanding": {
    "core_contradiction": "We want strong boundaries for safety and clarity, but rigid isolation blocks learning, flow, and adaptation.",
    "why_this_hurts": "Over-isolated systems and teams lose feedback, duplicate work, and become slow to respond to change.",
    "typical_signals": [
      "hard silos between teams or systems",
      "information available only through formal escalation",
      "shadow integrations and data copies",
      "slow response to cross-domain issues"
    ]
  },
  "solution_logic": {
    "core_idea": "Design boundaries that are selective, not absolute.",
    "key_rule": "Let signals and learning pass through, while keeping control and ownership intact.",
    "how_it_resolves_the_contradiction": "The system stays protected but remains responsive and informed through controlled permeability."
  },
  "application_patterns": {
    "consulting": [
      "cross-domain sync points with clear agendas",
      "shared metrics dashboards across teams",
      "communities of practice alongside formal structures"
    ],
    "software_engineering": [
      "read-only access to shared data instead of full integration",
      "event subscriptions for visibility without control",
      "feature usage telemetry exposed across teams"
    ],
    "architecture": [
      "event streams for observability across domains",
      "API access with scoped permissions",
      "shared monitoring without shared ownership"
    ],
    "enterprise_sap": [
      "read-only replication for analytics and monitoring",
      "shared data quality dashboards across domains",
      "controlled access to master data attributes"
    ]
  },
  "anti_patterns": [
    "leaky boundaries with no control",
    "exposing internals instead of signals",
    "porosity without accountability"
  ],
  "usage_guidance": {
    "use_when": [
      "silos block visibility and learning",
      "teams need awareness without control",
      "coordination cost is high due to isolation"
    ],
    "do_not_use_when": [
      "data sensitivity forbids exposure",
      "boundaries are required for legal or safety reasons"
    ]
  },
  "diagnostic_questions": [
    "Which boundaries block useful signals?",
    "What information could be shared safely?",
    "How can visibility improve decisions without breaking ownership?"
  ],
  "example": {
    "before": "Each domain operates in isolation with no visibility into others.",
    "after": "Domains expose metrics and events while keeping control over their own data."
  },
  "meta": {
    "schema": "dkharlanau.dataset.byte",
    "schema_version": "1.1",
    "dataset": "TRIZ-bytes",
    "source_project": "cv-ai",
    "source_path": "TRIZ-bytes/TRIZ-31.json",
    "generated_at_utc": "2026-02-03T14:33:32+00:00",
    "creator": {
      "name": "Dzmitryi Kharlanau",
      "role": "SAP Lead",
      "website": "https://dkharlanau.github.io",
      "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dkharlanau"
    },
    "attribution": {
      "attribution_required": true,
      "preferred_citation": "Dzmitryi Kharlanau (SAP Lead). Dataset bytes: https://dkharlanau.github.io"
    },
    "license": {
      "name": "",
      "spdx": "",
      "url": ""
    },
    "links": {
      "website": "https://dkharlanau.github.io",
      "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dkharlanau"
    },
    "contact": {
      "preferred": "linkedin",
      "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dkharlanau"
    },
    "canonical_url": "https://dkharlanau.github.io/datasets/TRIZ-bytes/TRIZ-31.json",
    "created_at_utc": "2026-02-03T14:33:32+00:00",
    "updated_at_utc": "2026-02-03T15:29:02+00:00",
    "provenance": {
      "source_type": "chat_export_extraction",
      "note": "Extracted and curated by Dzmitryi Kharlanau; enriched for attribution and crawler indexing."
    },
    "entity_type": "triz_byte",
    "entity_subtype": "",
    "summary": "Increase adaptability and resilience by allowing controlled permeability instead of enforcing total isolation."
  }
}