CB.9:4.5 - Make the arrangement operable and try a shortfall

Obtain the allocations, access and practical support needed for the next activity. OCE.6 helps establish assignments and enabling relations; the receiving provider must accept work that depends on its resources. Check that a person can perform their part, rather than treating a named owner as provision.

Run one ordinary occurrence through the arrangement. Can the host enter the venue, can the facilitator prepare, and can the promised result reach its user? Inspect the first use and obtain contributors’ accounts of work that the plan omitted. Correct the promise or the provision where they differ.

Also examine the shortfall most likely to defeat continuation: a key person’s absence, a delayed payment, a loss of access or demand above the agreed limit. Decide who will reduce, postpone or cancel the affected promise and how participants will learn that decision. A simple backup may be enough. If no backup is feasible, make the limit part of the offer.

Keep the response proportionate to the reliance. A casual discussion can be postponed; a promised professional service may need a qualified replacement and explicit settlement with its users. Ask the relevant owner for the needed arrangement before accepting that reliance.