CB.11:1 - Problem frame

Use this pattern when the purpose, people or support of a cultural or community arrangement changes enough that its continuation needs a decision. A founder is leaving, a sponsor withdraws a platform, participants need different forms of participation, or the useful work has largely been completed.

The subject is the arrangement that people can actually use: its activities, relationships, organising work, resources and commitments. The move is to choose a feasible continuation or ending, carry the useful contributions into the chosen arrangement, and settle what will no longer be provided. The wider cultural practice can continue among independent carriers even when an organised activity ends.

The first useful result is an agreed continuation or ending, with the provision and remaining actions needed to carry it out. Where implementation is part of the work, the result includes receiving use under the new arrangement and settlement of the old commitments. An announcement or copied archive alone establishes neither.

The intended user is an organiser, a person taking over a contribution, or someone who can obtain the relevant decisions from participants and resource owners. They need access to the commitments and means of work that the change affects.

Ordinary non-use. A continuing arrangement that remains useful and adequately provided needs no reinvention because a lifecycle diagram labels it mature. A routine rota change within effective existing terms can use those terms. Use this pattern when the change affects what people can obtain, who can provide it or which commitments remain valid.