E.4.CM:4.1 - Recover the working question before assigning parts

Start with the practitioner, working situation, sought result and conditions that make the result useful. Recover a worked attempt, a failure or a sufficiently explicit proposed case. Keep the original need when exploring a smaller attainable result. If the difficulty is not yet named, follow an ordinary result to its receiving use with B.5.PI: a document can have been delivered while its recipient still cannot continue the work.

Find candidate methods, rules and results by the change needed. In each candidate description recover the input, action, result, conditions and limits. A shared topic helps find a text; the receiving action determines what can be used from it. Include the necessary performer, preparation, means and access: an obtainable description does not supply them.

For a source-derived Method, recover the source’s constructive synthesis as well as its component results: the proposed objects, relations, operations, dependencies, choices and claimed result. Verify those contributions at the scope being used. Known ingredients are not grounds for discarding the source’s organization; the source’s novelty claim is not proof that the organization works.

Method-engineering sources may call their reusable units fragments, chunks, slices or practices. Recover what each unit contains and what its source composition rules mean. Transfer the useful selection, adaptation or joining move, then establish the receiving FPF claim through A.3.1 and B.1.5. A source unit can combine an action account, notation, role, deliverable and guidance; its name alone does not make it a constituent Method. Use E.10:0.2c.21a for explanatory naming without erasing the source’s distinctions.

Trace what participants do, what each action needs and what it makes available. Include preparation or support that changes the result. Distinguish constituent actions from documents describing them, learning how to perform them, and environmental conditions. A table of pattern names describes neither their enactment nor their composition.

Ask where the same connection will matter again: another input, performer, receiving use, configuration or scale. That variation gives a candidate reusable problem. It need not establish a universal law or require observed failures in every discipline. State a proposed use as proposed.

Use B.1.5 to determine whether the actions form one Method: the whole needs its own reusable action, applicability, result, constituent relations and preserved conditions. Keep a repertoire of alternatives as a repertoire when no common whole is being asserted. A composition can contain other compositions, and a constituent can serve several wholes. Neither Method depth nor the number of patterns establishes a framework boundary.

When several Methods remain independently usable, select the relations their readers need explained. Preparing a recording, analysing movement in it, showing it to an audience and developing a better preparation method can be connected without constituting one Method. Recover the result uses, shared conditions and returns that make a difference. This connected account is ordinary content about Methods and their uses. Call it a MethodDescription of one Method only when that Method and the description’s membership have been established under A.3.1 and A.3.2. A list, diagram or larger time window does not establish a new whole or a U.Structure.