ECO.4:4 - Solution

ECO.4:4.1 - Recover the missing contribution and the reason it is missing

Describe the next useful venture step and the contributions it consumes: an order, access, money, capability, supply, permission or another actual result. Reuse the production and resource network from OPS or MA. Separate resources already available from hopes, offers, reservations and binding commitments.

Ask the relevant provider what prevents its contribution. Distinguish a proposal it cannot yet understand, an understood disagreement about value or risk, and a contribution it cannot supply. Use EXD to explain a genuinely unclear construction; revise terms or participants for disagreement; develop or obtain a missing capability instead of requesting more enthusiasm.

ECO.4:4.2 - Build conditions that can be satisfied together

For each consequential commitment, state the contribution, provider, recipient, time, condition for becoming effective and condition for release or withdrawal. Existing agreements can supply these facts without a new form. Include the provider’s actual ability and authority to commit.

Trace dependencies between commitments. “Supplier starts after payment; investor pays after delivery” leaves no first action when no party can fund a start and no available mechanism can satisfy the conditions together. Mutually conditional commitments can proceed when the parties have the means and authority to execute them jointly. Otherwise, look for a smaller attainable construction: a customer deposit, a limited trial funded from available means, a staged supply, a reservation, another provider, or a less demanding first result. Compare who carries the resulting exposure and what is lost if the venture stops.

A demonstration is useful when it resolves a participant’s decision: for example whether a process can handle its input or whether a proposed service fits its work. A demonstration of technical performance does not by itself establish future demand, funding or authority.

ECO.4:4.3 - Commit only what the combination can support

Check that simultaneous obligations fit the resources and timing. A provider’s promise to two ventures can exceed its capacity even when each promise is reasonable alone. OPS.13 supplies the resource feasibility account; FIN.10 supplies the financing contribution when financial terms are the missing part.

Choose the attainable combination, retain a conditional plan or stop. Name the event that releases the next step and the remaining exposure; carry it in the actual proposal, agreement or work plan. Reopen when a contribution, understanding, alternative or dependency changes. Use another inquiry only if its possible result changes this next commitment.