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PSD.1:8 - Common Anti-Patterns and How to Avoid Them
| Anti-pattern | Repair |
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| “First agree what the problem is.” | Preserve materially different formulations and ask which receiving decision each would change. |
| “The client is the decision maker.” | Separate recipient, holder, choice owner, and authority basis; name any supported coincidence. |
| “Run the workshop and the scope will emerge.” | State the intended return and provisional boundary before choosing the workshop Method. |
| “The model says option A, so that is the decision.” | Keep model result, recommendation, authority, and later ChoiceResult separate. |
| “We need every stakeholder before we can start.” | Return a bounded current question and use PSD.2 to expose which missing participant or concern can change it. |
| “This is only advice, so authority does not matter.” | State who may prepare, receive, rely on, and choose whenever those differences change use or consequences. |
| “Use PSD.1 as stage one of every engagement.” | Bypass it when the receiving question and authority boundary are already adequate and another result is the live gap. |