CB.14:4.3 - Choose work that fits the size of the contribution
Select the smallest undertaking that can obtain the wanted result.
| Situation | Useful undertaking | Return that makes it worthwhile |
|---|---|---|
| Participants can explain a sufficiently known way, but its usable account is missing. | Jointly develop an explanation, with an author or editor where helpful. | An instruction another intended user can follow, with conditions and remaining gaps. |
| Different approaches may help under different conditions. | Compare the cases and organise a bounded exchange or trial. | A qualified difference, supported choice or precise next question. |
| The contribution needs more sustained effort than ordinary participation can supply. | Establish a time-bounded practice-development project. | A usable product, evidence, limits and any maintenance or adoption work still needed. |
| The proposed explanation requires a new knowledge result. | Obtain the bounded RMP contribution. | An answer or retained uncertainty that changes the method decision. |
Writing can be shared, or one person can prepare drafts from practitioners’ accounts. Choose from the available time and skills. A commissioned writer can make progress while practitioners retain responsibility for checking whether the account describes their work and answers their question.
For a project, establish its purpose, scope, participants, resource provision, intermediate returns and completion condition through the community’s actual decision arrangement in CB.13. Include the people who will judge and use the result. A group may propose the work from below; the needed mandate and commitments still have to be obtained.
Obtain the time and access from their real owners. Use OCE.6 for assignments and enabling conditions, OCE.11 when this work overlaps with continuing commitments, and OPS.5 when a provider must decide whether to admit the work. An interested employee cannot commit an employer’s time merely by volunteering in the community.
Agree useful intermediate contact. A draft, unresolved case or trial observation should reach practitioners early enough to alter development. Choose contact frequency from that purpose and the project’s uncertainty. Regular reports of activity add little if the community cannot influence the result or obtain missing inputs.