DOCA.1.CHR:4.2 - Select characteristics by decision difference

For each candidate characteristic, ask: if its current reading, intended reading, polarity, or uncertainty were different, could the worthwhile problem, contribution, direction, reachability, protection, advice, or next question change?

Keep it when the answer is yes. Otherwise omit it from the working account, while naming any intentionally unsearched area whose omission could reverse the result.

Start from several directions when useful:

• the receiver’s required result or acceptance expectation;
• resources and burdens needed to obtain it;
• consequences for affected Systems or groups;
• conditions that must not worsen;
• the subject’s current limitations or enabling strengths;
• prerequisites, complements, constraints, interactions, and transition conditions; and
• uncertainty or information whose resolution could change the next action.

A generic capability, maturity, readiness, quality, or performance catalogue is a source of questions, not an automatic closed set.