ME.3:1 - Problem Frame

Situational Method Engineering asks practitioners to fit a way of working to its context. Engineering-design research adds useful questions about a Method’s goal, procedure, rationale, framing, mindset, intended use, representation, tool, and ecosystem. A project also faces domain constraints that do not belong inside the Method: protected information, performer capability, authority, shared capacity, evidence timing, reversibility, and the acceptance conditions of the receiving result.

When these unlike claims are placed in one “method requirements” list, description content becomes a Method part, culture becomes a performer property, authority becomes skill, and product requirements become proof of Method fit. A useful criteria result keeps the connected situation visible while returning each claim to its actual subject.