IS.5:4.2 - Choose the continuation that obtains the wanted result

For each dependency that matters to continued use, compare the actual alternatives. Use a sufficient current arrangement directly. Otherwise consider:

Continuation	What must be obtained	What would make the choice inappropriate
Retain the present help	A dependable contribution under ordinary demand and agreed terms.	The provider cannot continue, the contribution no longer matters, or its burden exceeds its benefit.
Reduce or make help conditional	Recipients can handle the ordinary cases, recognize the named exception and reach support when it occurs.	Apparent independence still relies on unobserved rescue or exceptions cannot be recognized.
Transfer provision	Another provider can obtain the required inputs, perform the contribution and be received by the continuing work.	Only files or a role title have moved.
Develop recipient capability	Suitable practice, feedback and evidence of performing the required operation.	Personal acquisition is not wanted, or the needed opportunities and time cannot be supplied.
Replace the obtaining way	A different qualified source, tool, service or Method can supply the result.	Its limits or access exclude the actual cases.
Extend use to another setting	The target and its support fit that setting, or an appropriate adaptation can be qualified.	Local results are treated as a universal adoption instruction.
End support or practice	Remaining work and affected dependencies have a legitimate disposition.	A date or funding decision is being used as evidence that dependent work is complete.

The table distinguishes choices; it does not prescribe a progression. Continuing specialist provision can remain preferable to local acquisition. A highly capable AI service can replace substantial human help where its actual performance and conditions justify the replacement. Conversely, a service that supplies correct answers can leave the recipients unable to notice when it is outside its qualified use.

Compare alternatives against the actual promise. Do not reject a service because it fails to teach when teaching was never needed. Do not call it equivalent to capability development when the recipients must later act without it. IS.3 supplies the connected strategy construction and full work comparison when the continuation requires a new arrangement.