IS.Reference:3 - Keep the target, the help and their results distinct
The target practice is what the receiving performers are trying to do. The support strategy is the proposed way of helping them establish, use or revise it. The support arrangement supplies the people, systems, time, tools, access and decisions needed for that strategy. A support undertaking is the bounded work and commitments through which that help is provided.
These distinctions change action. A different explanation of a target method may repair its description without changing the method. Replacing a classroom session with rehearsal changes the support strategy. Repairing an unavailable reference changes the arrangement. Changing the target’s decision criterion can change the method itself. A successful result does not settle which change made it possible.
The receiving promise also matters:
| Wanted result | What must actually be obtained |
|---|---|
| A useful result from the target practice | The result and conditions the receiver needs, including qualified external performance when that is the chosen way. |
| A person’s independent or appropriately supported ability | That person’s contribution in representative work under the promised support conditions, using the applicable human-development and assessment methods. |
| A continuing organizational contribution | The combined work, effective relations, means and ordinary provision conditions that allow the organization to deliver it. |
| Ability to arrange later implementation | The intended holder’s performance of noticing a difficulty, obtaining suitable help, making permitted decisions and using the result, at the promised scope. |
| Continuation among other carriers | Obtainable material and support, actual receiving uses and the particular cultural relations claimed; publication or a first successful handover is insufficient for a population-wide claim. |
A target need not be an immutable, fully validated manual. Selection, construction and adaptation can remain open. For a particular attempt, recover the intended contribution, the operations actually to be performed, their conditions and the result that can change the next decision. Preserve the status of a proposed method account. A.3.1.MI explains the stronger Method, Work and evidence distinctions when the use relies on them.
If there is no useful target question yet, open inquiry rather than invent an implementation plan. B.5.PI and C.40.CD help form and revise questions; C.40.OD helps construct and compare development opportunities; C.39 and the relevant subject practice develop the obtaining way. Return to implementation support when its help can make a consequential difference. Continued development is wider than successful implementation and can open another worthwhile problem after this undertaking ends.