CHK.4:4.3 - Decide what the answer changes

Ask what follows for the intended work. A mismatch can support changing the subject, revising a mistaken description, changing the intended use, obtaining more information, or choosing a bounded continuation. Recover the relevant decision grounds and any separately applicable authority. The answer itself imposes no duty and grants no permission. If recording it also triggers an operational action, identify that coupling and establish the grounds for the action separately.

If a change is selected, recover how it could produce the intended result: the suitable Method or alternative Methods, a capable performer, needed means and a useful occasion. Return missing Method knowledge to the domain practice; writing another question does not supply it. For a noisy workshop, closing a door, changing rooms and moving the discussion online are different possible interventions, with different conditions of use. An expected time for quiet is a planning judgement, not an observation that quiet has been achieved.

Distinguish the selected work from checking and recording it. A decision to replace a card does not establish that the card was replaced. After the change, check the affected question on adequate grounds. OPS.6 separates continuation, performance, records and resulting state when an operating case needs another action; OPS.18 addresses the quality and reliability question in continuing operation.

Keep historical answers and unaffected grounds. Reopen other questions only where the change can defeat their basis. Stop when the selected questions are sufficiently answered for the intended use, or return the exact missing observation, interpretation, capability or decision. Use CHK.5 when several participants’ reliance is affected.