B.5.1:5 - Consequences

Benefits	Trade-offs / Mitigations
Clear Project Visibility: The states give a shared language for the development focus and intended transition.	Risk of Bureaucracy: Treating states as a universal evidence recipe can create unnecessary work. Use the actual transition conditions and reuse covering results.
Improved Focus: Exploration, design, evaluation and live operation have distinguishable immediate questions.	A result can serve another use without changing the development subject’s state; keep those two judgements separate.
Reduces “It’s Done” Ambiguity: The team can say whether it completed the present answer, the design or the conditions for operation.	A state label cannot replace the applicable readiness criteria.