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ME.1:4 - Solution

Select the smallest focus class whose subject and status are supported and whose change could alter the receiving result. Keep the rejected focus options and one observable reopen condition in the result.

ME.1:4.1 - Pattern-Use Unfolding

  1. Name the receiving result and decision. State the result at risk, who will use it, the relevant situation and interval, and what decision the focus will enable.
  2. Recover representative Work. Identify the Work occurrence or intended Work that exposes the difficulty. Use A.15.6 to keep the project System, use, Work, Method, support, and development subjects distinct.
  3. Recover the subjects of the accounts already in use. For each project, process, case, lifecycle, stage, or workflow description, state what its claims concern, their actual or intended status, the question exposed, and the material omissions. Use A.15.6 when the label hides the subject. Keep unlike subjects separate; a claimed view additionally needs its exact viewpoint and E.17.0 conformance result.
  4. Recover Method-status candidates. List Methods already identified under A.3.1, candidate Method accounts, established family facts, local groupings, related Methods, and support or capability alternatives. Preserve their statuses.
  5. Form materially different focus options. Include each plausible one-Method, plurality, relation, and non-Method branch. A renamed package or differently drawn view is not another focus option.
  6. Test family and relation claims. Use G.5 for any maintained family or selector claim and the applicable relation pattern for each direct relation. When no identified whole and obtaining relations exist, retain a relation focus or local grouping rather than a composite.
  7. Choose and record. Use C.11 or a domain decision Method to select one focus for the receiving decision. State rejected options, evidence limits, next useful result, and the observation that reopens the focus.

ME.1:4.2 - Record the Result

Result positionRequired content
use boundaryReceiving result and decision, situation, interval, project System or other subject, and decision authority when a choice is asserted.
representative WorkActual or intended Work relevant to the decision, with its result and participant meanings.
accounts usedEach account’s direct subject, claim, question, important loss, and effect on the focus; exact viewpoint and conformance result when a view is claimed.
Method-status inventoryIdentified Methods, candidate accounts, established family facts, local groupings, related Methods, and non-Method alternatives.
options and choiceFour focus classes considered, selected class and subject, rejected options, basis, and unresolved claims.
continuationNext result needed and one observable reopen condition.

ME.1:4.3 - What Changes in Practice

The project stops asking which named methodology should replace another. It first decides whether the live subject is one Method, a governed family or local grouping, relations among several Methods, or a non-Method condition. Downstream Work becomes smaller, and a useful plurality can remain plural without being packaged as a fictitious composite.