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E.23.CDI:4 - Solution

E.23.CDI:4.1 - Name the holder and target Work

Keep the holder System, its capability, the target Work family, development intervention, provider Systems, development Work, transfer Work, and evidence separate. A familiar group name does not by itself identify the capability holder.

Candidate holder wordingBoundary for this use
a person or equipped personUse the person or equipped whole only when that System is the bearer of the bounded capability claim.
a team or organizationUse the team or organization only when the whole is admitted as one System for the target Work; member capabilities do not aggregate automatically.
a pair or ensembleUse the pair or ensemble when joint performance is the capability at stake; do not distribute that claim to every member.
an engineering or operating arrangementUse the whole arrangement only when its boundary and relevant conditions are recoverable; tools, people, and providers remain separately identifiable participants.
a populationTreat the population as holder only when that whole independently satisfies the System boundary for this claim. Otherwise keep member capabilities separate, assess their distribution separately, and use C.36 for cultural propagation.

E.23.CDI:4.2 - Apply the Method

  1. Start from an evidence-backed account of the domain Methods needed for the named Work and how their contributions relate.
  2. Name the operating envelope and the qualification window or currentness condition that can change whether the Work succeeds.
  3. State the current capability baseline and desired result before choosing an intervention: the decision-bearing current measures and evidence, the desired measures or success predicate, and the trade-offs that must remain protected. The desired result is a target for later evaluation, not an established current ability or an actual change.
  4. Find the contribution that is missing, limiting, or poorly coordinated.
  5. Choose an intervention directed at that limitation, and name any provider System on which the intervention relies. The intervention may use, for example, practice, coaching, adaptation, tooling, changed support, or a changed Method; the receiving domain supplies the actual choice.
  6. Carry the protected conditions into the chosen intervention. Keep the selected intervention or plan separate from any development Work that is later performed.
  7. Declare a transfer check that tests the stated target in representative Work under the relevant operating conditions. When that check is performed, keep the transfer Work, its evidence and result, and the resulting capability statement or currentness assessment separate. An exercise, description, publication, attendance record, or provider delivery is not that transfer check.
  8. Reopen the Method account, holder boundary, baseline, target, intervention, protected conditions, or currentness claim when the transfer evidence shows that the earlier account was wrong, incomplete, or no longer current.

E.23.CDI:4.3 - Return the first useful result

The first useful result names the admitted holder System, target Work family, current capability baseline, operating envelope, decision-bearing measures and evidence, qualification window or currentness condition, desired measures or success predicate, current limiting contribution, selected intervention and any provider dependency, protected conditions, representative transfer check, and reopen condition. If member distributions or cultural propagation are also current, return their separate assessment or C.36 result. A population can be the capability holder only when that whole is independently admitted as the System.

The exact holder, its qualified A.2.2 ability claim and the basis for relying on the current baseline must be recoverable. The practitioner-facing result can still remain the two short sentences above plus the evidence used for the baseline and transfer result. Expose record identifiers, a separate E.22 evaluation frame, or detailed provider and service relations only when a receiving use needs them.

Keep the selected intervention or plan, performed development Work, performed transfer Work, transfer evidence and result, pre- and post-intervention capability statements, a comparison claiming capability change, and any actual Transformation claim separate. A plan remains prospective. For performed Work, recover each exact actual performer through A.13 and let A.15.1 independently admit the occurrence; add F.6 only when the record or receiving use expressly consumes precise assignment-bound attribution. A capability-change comparison needs commensurable measures, envelopes, windows, and current support; it does not by itself say that the development Work caused a world-side change. A causal Transformation claim additionally needs an independently identified A.3.4 Transformation and a named obtaining Work-to-change predicate or a supported local claim under A.6.RCD. Completion of development or transfer Work alone establishes none of these later claims. If the direct relation is missing, retain the Work, evidence, capability statements, and comparison and return that exact blocker.