FPF.Reference:16.7.5 - What this Method-development family foregrounds and leaves outside

This family foregrounds choosing and recovering the Method-development subject; qualifying candidates and comparing architectures; authoring and comparing descriptions and configuring enactment support; obtaining actual trial evidence and making separate judgments; maintaining variants, introducing Methods into practice and changing cultural continuation; and producing and using connected pattern-language knowledge. The last family uses source-grounded pattern-language knowledge; it does not restrict other Method-development uses to that form.

These general Methods do not contain domain Methods, operating procedures, curricula, legal or safety decisions, software tools, repository designs, statistical identification procedures, or complete organizational-change programmes. Use their direct Methods and authorities. Open a neighbouring DPF only when its specialist result is needed; the general Method-development family does not assume that a sibling edition is available merely because its discipline is named.