OPS.1:9 - Consequences

The pattern prevents premature optimization and gives later patterns stable subjects, commitments, units, and return conditions. It also exposes when the useful next result belongs to product engineering, organization change, maintenance, finance, safety, law, capability development, or another specialist practice.

The cost is early boundary and identity work. Some urgent requests stop because no one can support the operating System, commitment, unit, authority, or evidence claim. That is cheaper than optimizing a proxy whose relation to the continuing result is unknown.