DOCA.7:1 - Problem Frame

Use this when someone asks a distinct adviser which development direction to consider for a person, organization, or other identified subject, but the terms of that help are not clear enough to support responsible advice. The question may already be well formed. What remains unsettled is who the advice serves, what the adviser can competently provide, what may be disclosed, and who retains the choice.

Begin by naming the recipient, developing subject, intended use, horizon, and the person or arrangement expected to prepare the advice. Then settle the professional conditions that can change whether the service may proceed. The first useful result is an admissible bounded advising question, a narrower service, or an exact blocker or referral.

This pattern is the entry to Development-Direction Advising. It governs the development-advice relationship and its permitted reliance, while PSD governs generic decision-support framing, comparison, and recommendation. An admissible engagement question is not yet a warranted recommendation.

Ordinary non-use boundary. Self-directed opportunity construction needs no adviser. Enter DOCA.1–DOCA.6 at the missing result when that is the actual question. If a chooser already has adequate premises and needs only their own choice, use C.11 or the direct domain rule. Reuse a current adequate engagement boundary; do not repeat intake merely because another pattern is being used. When one qualified domain practice owns the whole service, use it directly.