C.40.OI:4.4 - State the reason to explore and separate its status

Write why exploration is warranted now. Distinguish:

• a qualified receiving problem or demand;
• an observed dissatisfaction or changed constraint;
• a proposed contribution or explicit problem hypothesis;
• a supplier promise, technology signal, or PatternID used only as a search lead; and
• curiosity that is valuable only if a bounded inquiry can be afforded.

Preserve competing formulations when they would send the inquiry toward different contributions. Use the direct problem-structuring pattern when deciding among those formulations is itself the current Work.