OCE.Preface:4 - Pattern relations do not prescribe a lifecycle

OCE.1 → OCE.2 → OCE.3 shows the result dependencies when the change focus, current-organization account and concept alternatives must all be developed. It is not a calendar sequence. A current account can be repaired while a repertoire is refreshed; a known concept can enter downstream design without repeating every earlier result; changed evidence reopens only defeated claims.

Use the smallest pattern whose result can change the decision. Follow a prescribed sequence when the selected Method requires it. The PumpWorks application is a worked example, the Table of Contents gives reading order, and a return to another practice asks for a needed specialist result.