HCD.20:0 - Use This When

Use this pattern when learning could involve other participants and someone must decide what that involvement should accomplish, which configuration could provide it, and whether the complete burden is feasible. Enter with a learning target and relevant preparation assumptions or evidence. A request to “make groups” is not yet a reason to use one.

The first useful result is a learning-arrangement comparison: serious individual and group options with the actions each person must perform, contributions from others, actual task-group sizes, support, access, full load and observation limits. A useful result may select a supported individual construction, leave two plausible options, or identify the exact condition preventing a group option.

The practical gain is preserving learning while changing its organization. A practitioner can distinguish twenty-four people enrolled in one programme from six groups performing one discussion, an enduring peer circle, and the mentors supplying feedback. Changing one size does not determine the others.

Do not use this pattern merely to book a room, assign already settled groups or celebrate participation. For a whole learning product use HCD.28; for a shared task use HCD.22. When only a competent joint result is needed and learning is not required, use the work’s own organization method. Team or organization capability needs evidence at that holder and work level.