CB.4:1 - Problem frame

Use this pattern when people have a worthwhile reason to interact, but the setting or activity does not yet let them do the relevant work together. A forum accumulates brief unanswered questions. A large meeting lets a few people speak while others cannot enter the conversation. A private case needs careful clarification, while the proposed format gives everyone only a minute.

The subject is the arrangement of an interaction: its people, purpose, material, place or channel, participation, facilitation, timing and continuation. A useful arrangement can support mutual help, a shared experience, comparison of practice or a wider view of an issue. It may be a single encounter or a continuing space.

First useful result: participants can perform the intended shared activity under feasible conditions, and its useful result or unresolved question reaches the next person or action that needs it.

The organiser needs a credible purpose and relevant contributions, such as CB.1/2 supply, and an account of participants’ access and preparation. CB.3 helps establish entry conditions. The activity’s domain supplies the content and criteria for professional conclusions.

Ordinary non-use. Keep an existing interaction that supplies its result at acceptable burden. Use a resource or individual service when it can answer the receiving need without mutual activity. A missing professional method, authority or permission requires its direct supplier; choosing a more engaging meeting does not obtain it.