OCE.16:0.1 - Working Distinctions
| Name used here | Meaning |
|---|---|
| separately managed change | A proposed or actual organization change with its own subject, intended result, status, scope, owner, evidence, and next decision. Separation does not imply independence. |
| organizational condition | A contribution, assignment, authority, permission, access path, provider or support relation, information return, acceptance route, participation condition, capability condition, or other organization relation or condition that a change may alter. |
| consequential dependency | A claim that alteration of one named condition can change another change’s exact action or decision within a stated window. It is not proved by temporal overlap, a diagram, or a participant’s interpretation alone. |
| participant account | A bounded report from a participant or affected System about an action, demand, consequence, or condition. Use it to locate a possible dependency, then test the claimed contradiction against current evidence and recover decision authority separately. |
| qualified cross-change question | Ordinary decision-support content naming the changes, altered condition, consumer action or decision, window, participants, evidence and claim status, direct Method, result owner, and any missing input. |
| direct Method | A Method whose result answers the qualified question within its stated applicability. For example, ME.6 compares ways of using Methods together; an appointment requires the applicable assignment Method and actual authority. |
| per-change return | A readable application of already-governed direct results to every affected change. It adds no second choice or authorization. |
| direct exit | A stop in OCE.16 because no consequential consumer exists, the dependency is unsupported, or the direct answer and its per-change consequences are already available. |
Different project, process, case, architecture, Method, organization, and operating descriptions remain different. OCE.16 asks whether one change alters a condition another actually uses; it does not force unlike subjects into one view or one programme.