MDPE.19:3.5 - Change the selected relation and test the claimed reproduction
When a change is warranted, target the continuation-critical relation supported by the current account or a completed test. A supported fragile continuation or authorized local retirement need not first manufacture a failure experiment. Examples of targeted changes include:
| Observed weakness | Relation-specific intervention |
|---|---|
| One performer or teacher is irreplaceable | Develop and test another Agent’s capability; distribute teaching or correction Work; preserve access to the remaining expert without assuming unlimited unpaid Work. |
| Material survives but tacit Method is missing | Combine source recovery with rehearsal, annotation, oral history, movement or sound analysis, and a receiving trial. |
| Instrument, hardware, software, or calibration is the single point of failure | Maintain it, prepare a compatible replacement, preserve configuration information, or branch to a variant with declared changes. |
| One venue, organizer, or event provides the only recurring opportunity | Develop another provider arrangement, share organizing capability, or redesign the practice for another suitable setting. |
| Practitioners can perform representative Work that enacts the variant, but audiences or selectors cannot recognize it | Develop recognition capability through MDPE.23 or change the presentation and selection arrangement through MDPE.13, while preserving the variant’s relevant distinctions. |
| Literal reproduction is infeasible or undesirable | Select a branch that preserves the needed function or relations and state what changed; do not claim uninterrupted identity without evidence. |
| Support cost or harm exceeds current value | Retire the named class, repertoire membership, service, publication, or support arrangement within authority; preserve useful memory and notify affected Agents when required. |
When the task includes performing a selected intervention, a capable and authorized Agent uses the applicable direct teaching, coaching, rehearsal, preservation, maintenance, software, event-production, organization-change or retirement Method. The continuation decision neither grants permission nor establishes that the intervention occurred. A warranted proposal can finish before that Work; a claimed tested intervention cannot.
When the requested result is tested post-change reproduction, observe representative Work under the changed condition. A document, training event, software change, new assignment or maintenance action is not that result. If reproduction succeeds, report the Work and changed arrangement; if it fails or remains inconclusive, report that result. Claim that the intervention repaired or strengthened continuation only with a suitable C.28 basis. A bounded keep, reverse, revise or stop decision can use the weaker supported result without another trial or causal comparison.