Working distinctions
| Ordinary term | Meaning in this Method | Nearest tempting overread |
|---|---|---|
| Later Work | The future work or contribution whose usefulness is being explored, at a grain sufficient to identify a receiver, situation and horizon. | A Work family or future description is not a dated Work occurrence or a WorkPlan. |
| Niche | A tentative match between a possible contribution and a receiving use under particular conditions. It is ordinary working wording, not a new universal kind. | A market category, technical novelty or empty space in a map does not show that anyone needs the contribution. |
| Proposed provision promise | A statement of what could be offered to a receiver, under which conditions and acceptance expectations. An existing promise is read from its exact source; a proposal is marked as a proposal. | A proposed offer is not an actual commitment, provider capability, access, provision or fulfilment. |
| Worthwhile problem | A problem statement with a named affected use, an unsatisfactory or foregone result, its significance and the conditions under which addressing it could be worth the burden. | Enthusiasm, prestige, a supplier’s claim or the phrase “there is a problem” is not enough to establish actual need or value. |
| Direction and support configuration | A materially different possible change, together with the capabilities, access, Methods, people, tools, resources and relations it would require. | A candidate configuration is not an obtaining arrangement or an authorized intervention. |
| Bounded reachability | A source-qualified claim about whether specified transitions toward the candidate contribution could be made within the stated horizon and protected conditions. | Plausibility, a drawn path or success for a different holder is not proof that this holder can get there. |
| Stepping stone | A candidate or retained intermediate possibility with an explicit later option or region it could open. | Something easy, novel or educational is not automatically a stepping stone, a current best option or a justified probe. |
When promise content itself becomes a relied-on claim, use A.2.3; commitment, provider, access and fulfilment remain separate. When a claim needs an actual Problem or problematic-for relation, use C.22.PFR — Problematic-For Relation to establish the actual condition, the applicable adverse criterion and the entity and use for which it is a problem. This Method can work with explicitly provisional problem statements without inventing those stronger relations.