C.39.QR:4.3 - Establish what the performed work obtained

Examine the actual contribution and its grounds. State the claim or result it supports, its subject and conditions, and what was supplied by another source, performer or tool. A reader’s additional construction can be useful; identify it as that reader’s contribution when deciding what the received material supplied.

Carry a conclusion to the original subject only through the applicable relation and inference from section 4.2. If that inference is unsupported, repair it, obtain the missing ground or retain the narrower warranted conclusion. Preserve sound local work.

Then make the distinct comparison with the original task. Ask whether the result now available supplies the required answer, explanation or ability to continue. For example, a valid estimate of a system’s load can support sizing while leaving a requested operating arrangement undeveloped. Conversely, an adequately supported narrow estimate may fully answer a request for that estimate.

Keep the two conclusions explicit when they differ: what is established about the subject, and what part of the assigned work is thereby completed. Truth, membership, fidelity, coherence, coverage, usability and beneficial effect require the grounds appropriate to each judgement.

Questions: What did this work establish, about what, and under which conditions? What is justified about the original subject? What required result remains unavailable?