C.11.MV:0 - Use This When

Use this pattern when a practitioner must decide what to do with an admitted Method or status-preserved candidate relative to current alternatives. Use the available basis at its supported strength: observations, credible estimates, domain judgement or a structural constraint can support a present choice. Begin with the decision and alternative set: keep the present Method, revise it, replace it, branch by situation, or stop the Method change or use.

The first useful result is a practical-worth comparison row. It names the Method or candidate status, decision situation and receiver, one current alternative, the available evidence and its limits, domain results, burdens, capability and System demands, direct relations, side effects, opportunity cost, reversibility, evidence strength, unresolved trade-off, and the action the row can support. Include the status quo, stopping, or the next best use of scarce Work when it can change the decision.

Here practical worth is Plain practice wording for the situated judgment that a Method-related course is worth keeping, changing, replacing, branching, or stopping relative to named alternatives. It is not a universal score, Method admission, fit result, causal attribution, or organization-wide adoption decision.

Use C.11.DUA §4.3 directly when the whole question is a requirement’s justification; C.39.RQ §4.4 applies it to a situated Method criterion. Return to C.11.MV when a Method-related course also needs comparison. Do not use this pattern when no current alternative or decision receiver is named. Conformance, familiarity, one favourable occurrence or Method popularity alone does not establish comparative worth. A.3.1.QM qualification, A.3.1.CC coherence and A.3.1.FT fit can inform the present comparison; each retains its own scope. A missing stronger empirical result can limit this decision without erasing an independently supported current choice.

C.11.MV:0.1 - Working Distinctions

Item	Working meaning here	Boundary
current alternative	A feasible Method, variant, support change, status quo, stop, or next-slot course available to the named decision within its window.	A historical example or impossible ideal is not a current alternative unless it changes the decision.
domain result	The result in the receiving practice that the Method-related Work is intended to help produce or protect.	A Method task pass, conformance result, or positive report is not automatically the domain result.
burden	Time, cognitive, coordination, resource, maintenance, transition, or evidence burden observed or credibly estimated for the alternative.	Burden is not one scalar unless an explicitly defined aggregation is justified for the decision.
capability demand	The holder, Work family or result class, operating envelope, measures, qualification window, and evidence required for reliance.	Training completion, title, assignment, permission, authority, or one success does not establish capability.
side effect	A result outside the primary intended result that may help or harm the decision.	An unobserved possibility remains a risk or gap, not an effect.
opportunity cost	The named alternative Work, investment, learning, evidence, or receiving result displaced by the choice.	“Cost” without the forgone course is not yet an opportunity-cost claim.
reversibility	The conditions, time, information, and retained alternatives needed to undo or branch the choice.	A reversible tool setting does not make changed Method semantics, lost evidence, or organizational commitment reversible.
evidence strength	The qualified reach of observations, reports, comparisons, contribution or causal claims for this cell and window.	It is not a confidence adjective detached from source, use, and missing basis.
practical-worth decision	A bounded `keep`, `revise`, `replace`, `branch`, or `stop` result with reasons, unresolved trade-offs, and what that action preserves, creates, or changes.	It transfers neither as universal Method rank nor as authority to implement the decision.