CB.11:4 - Solution
Recover what people still need and what has changed, compare feasible arrangements, obtain the decisions and provision, then perform the transfer or ending at the level of actual use.
Working reminder: locate the change; recover what remains worthwhile; choose and provide the next arrangement; test receiving use; settle the old promise.
CB.11:4.1 - Identify what is changing and who can decide it
Name the concrete trigger and its timing. A sponsor may withdraw funding at the end of a period; a host may stop volunteering next month; members may want different activities. Separate what is already decided from a proposal, concern or unexplained drop in participation.
Recover the affected arrangement. Which work will stop or change? Who relies on it? Which resource, access or authority will disappear? Ask both the people doing visible activity and those obtaining quieter benefits, including independent users of maintained material.
Distinguish control over components. A platform owner can decide what it provides; an organiser can end their own contribution; an authorised community body can decide matters within its mandate. Independent participants still decide what they are willing and able to do together. Use CB.13 when the collective decision arrangement itself is missing or disputed.
Respond to an immediate harmful or unsupported condition through the applicable owner and CB.8/9. A necessary short-term suspension can protect participants while the larger choice remains open. State what is suspended and where people can obtain the remaining response.
CB.11:4.2 - Recover the useful work and the means of obtaining it
Use CB.10’s current account or a bounded inquiry to identify what is worth continuing, what has failed and what is no longer needed. Recover the received benefit and the burden of providing it. A founder’s preferred form and a sponsor’s preferred metric are inputs to the choice, not a substitute for the affected uses.
Follow one consequential use through its actual dependencies. A monthly case discussion can depend on a qualified facilitator, permitted case material, access to the venue and a way to return the result. A public guide can depend on a maintainer and a correction route while requiring no continuing meeting.
Use C.36.RP when the missing contribution concerns obtaining and using a shared way of working. It locates the gap and compares access, capable help, learning, tools and method development. Retaining a finished answer can leave its interpretation or adaptation unavailable. Obtain the contribution that the later use actually needs.
Include relationships whose continuation requires willing participation. Ask who wants to remain in contact and through what arrangement. Preserve an available way to reconnect where people agree; do not treat a copied membership list as a renewed relationship.
Retain a worthwhile but not yet used possibility when there is a reason and proportionate means to keep it available. The choice need not be between funding a full programme and discarding every trace of its work. An accessible explanation with a clear maintenance limit may be sufficient.
CB.11:4.3 - Compare feasible continuations and endings
Construct alternatives that answer the actual change. The following forms have different practical consequences:
| Alternative | What must become true for it to work |
|---|---|
| Continue the present arrangement | Its useful purpose and the threatened provision remain or are restored. |
| Reduce or change activities | A smaller or different promise has willing contributors, adequate support and understandable effects on current users. |
| Pause for a stated period or condition | People know which services stop, who handles current obligations and what decision will restart or end the pause. |
| Transfer to another host | A willing capable receiver obtains the necessary access, authority, resources and means of work. |
| Separate into different arrangements | Each group can operate its chosen contribution, and any remaining shared resource or mandate has workable terms. |
| End the organised activity | Current obligations are settled and worthwhile reusable contributions have an appropriate destination or a clear ending. |
Compare benefit, burden, timing and transition loss with the people affected. Include retaining the arrangement when its difficulty can be repaired. Include ending when no worthwhile and feasible continuation is available. Growth, retention of every participant and a larger institution are not universal completion conditions.
Separate a promising alternative from a provided one. A person interested in taking over may still lack time, capability or resource permission. Use CB.7 to develop willing organising work and CB.9 to obtain support. If the needed contribution cannot be provided before the old one ends, reduce or suspend the dependent promise.
ECO.9 develops a change to economic rules through the practices people can actually perform, including entry, exit, transition burdens and wider dependencies. Use it when those rules are the obstacle. OCE.14 supplies a needed organisational revision.
When the effect is uncertain and reversal is practical, try a bounded continuation before committing the whole arrangement. Name the result and burden that will inform the decision, who can stop the trial and what remains available if it fails. A trial must fit the remaining support period.
CB.11:4.4 - Obtain the decision and prepare its practical consequences
Take each required decision through its actual authority. Obtain the resource owner’s access decision, the successor’s agreement and the community decision where one is required. Keep objections and accepted losses visible through CB.13. A departing volunteer may state the end of their own contribution while others decide how to replace it.
Translate the chosen alternative into what affected people need to do. Name the ending and starting dates, the remaining activities, how to reach the new receiver, which promises cease and where unfinished matters will go. Explain a change before users continue relying on the old offer.
Agree the handover work and its limit with both the departing and receiving contributors. Include the time needed to explain an unusual case, obtain access and practise a consequential operation. CB.7 and C.36.RP help obtain capability where it is missing; a title or a folder transfer cannot supply it.
Recover rights and permissions for the material that will move. Public instructions, contributed examples, private discussions and contact details can have different permitted uses. Obtain the relevant permission or leave the restricted material with an appropriate existing receiver. A useful summary can sometimes carry a lesson without carrying the personal account.
If a common resource remains after separation, agree its access, upkeep, decision and dispute arrangements through ECO.7 and the applicable mandate. If those terms cannot be made workable, choose a different resource or narrow what the groups share.
CB.11:4.5 - Transfer through receiving use
Provide the chosen receiver with the contributions their work requires. This can include explanations, tools, access, contact with a qualified practitioner and a way to obtain corrections. Preserve the conditions under which a method or resource can be used; the recipient needs to recognise when it is unsuitable.
Have the receiver perform the next consequential work under the new conditions. For an organiser, that could be preparing and running a meeting, responding to an access problem and returning its result. For an independent user, it could be finding the guide, applying the relevant instruction and reaching its maintained correction route.
Observe the gap that the attempt reveals. A missed permission calls for an access decision; an uninterpretable method calls for explanation or learning; a defective method calls for its actual development through ME or the domain practice. Repair the gap and try the affected receiving use again. Keep other usable contributions available.
For a platform move, obtain the applicable export, hosting and access conditions, then inspect the transferred content and a real receiving task. Navigation, links, search, contribution permissions and private material can behave differently. The practical test concerns the functions people rely on, not just the number of files copied.
Finish the departing contributor’s responsibility at the agreed boundary. State which work has transferred, what remains unsupported and who has accepted any remaining handover. If the new arrangement cannot carry an essential promise, tell its users and reduce or stop that promise before declaring transfer complete.
CB.11:4.6 - Settle the arrangement that is ending
Review the actual remaining commitments with their receivers. Complete, transfer, cancel or renegotiate each one through the applicable arrangement. Paid bookings, promised feedback, borrowed equipment and unresolved participant matters can need different actions. A general closure announcement does not settle them.
Decide what remains accessible and who, if anyone, maintains it. Preserve useful methods, explanations and contact routes only with the permissions and provision needed for that use. Identify obsolete guidance as such where a reader could otherwise rely on it. A maintained public resource and an unmaintained historical archive serve different purposes.
Settle funds, resource access and credentials with the people who hold the corresponding authority. Follow the existing terms for unused contributions or shared property. Obtain a qualified decision where those terms are unresolved; the organiser should not invent a right to distribute or retain them.
Tell affected people what has ended, what remains usable and where the last unresolved work belongs. A final gathering or acknowledgement can help people recognise their shared contribution when they want it. It is not a condition that someone must satisfy before leaving.
Close the promised work at the scope actually achieved. An activity can end successfully after supplying its useful result. Relationships or cultural practice may continue elsewhere; say what has been arranged or observed and leave unobserved continuation open.
CB.11:4.7 - Observe the chosen continuation and revise its limits
After a transition, use a small number of relevant returns through CB.10. Can the next host obtain the necessary help? Can independent users still find and use the practice? Did separation remove the conflict or merely move an unresolved shared-resource burden?
Compare the result and cost with the choice. Revise the activity, provide a missing contribution or end the trial when its grounds fail. Preserve the distinction between a successful first use and continuation across later people or time; C.36 supplies the broader cultural question and its evidence requirements.
Revisit the arrangement when purpose, support or context changes again. The Guidebook’s context-oriented development can reveal a new external constraint, partner or way to contribute. It can justify collaboration, challenge to an external condition or a different local agenda. It does not require the community to approximate a universal ideal of maturity.