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PSD.16:4.5 - Make the bounded decision and retain the residual

Compare alternatives against the actual result conditions: faithful participation and interpretation, valid model and evidence use, feasible support, timeliness and applicable authority. Keep protected conditions outside compensating trade-offs unless their competent source actually allows that treatment. More output or a shorter meeting does not compensate for unsupported representation or evidence.

Choose within the established facilitation or engagement-design remit. If a proposed change requires another person’s resources, changes a participation obligation or alters the authorized receiving decision, obtain the owner’s decision. Until then, return a conditional proposal or blocker, not an implemented arrangement. The C.32.MWA synthesis informs this choice; it does not supply its authority.

State the selected change, the material reason, the alternative not taken, what remains unchanged, the residual difficulty, and the limit on the next return. Keep an adequate incumbent when another arrangement brings no justified gain. If no available arrangement preserves the necessary conditions, narrow the result or stop its unsupported part.

This decision concerns how decision support is conducted. It does not select the pump, authorize organization change, deploy a model, or establish agreement with the eventual advice.