ME.3:0 - Use This When

Use this pattern when a Method, an established-family or project-local grouping choice, or a proposed Method/Work/support structure may fail in the project’s situation. Enter when the practical question concerns the receiving result, performer capabilities, technical or organizational conditions, variability, evidence, authority, or acceptable burden and those conditions are not yet explicit enough for individual qualification or architecture comparison.

Begin with the situation family, intended or current Work, receiving professional result, and the level of the Method decision. State the contributions that a Method or several Methods must make without preselecting which candidate supplies them. Place every resulting criterion with the Method, description, performer capability, covering Work assignment, permission relation, decision-authority relation, performed Work, decision result, support/access relation, responsibility, cultural subject, or receiving result it actually concerns.

The first useful result is a bounded set of criteria with subjects, allowed variation, evidence needs, satisfaction observations, and stops. A criterion can be ready for later use even when no candidate currently meets it. Enter also when the present question concerns the justification of a criterion itself. That use can finish with a supported requirement recommendation and the criterion’s current force or amendment limit, without selecting a Method.

Do not use this pattern as a generic product-requirements template. Criteria do not identify, admit, select, qualify, or compose a Method or establish present or future fit. Product acceptance, Method identity, individual qualification, and architecture choice remain separate results.