STR.12:5.1 - SensorCo stops the affected work, not the whole company

SensorCo’s Board has authorized four engineer-days of preparation while leaving the twelve-month choice between a viable device-only direction and service alternatives open. The preparation includes complete service costing and a feasible trial design. It authorizes neither customer-data use nor the eighteen-day larger preparation-and-trial configuration.

Suppose the completed costing adequately includes support, travel, incidents and the displaced device work, and makes the service alternative unattractive relative to device-only activity under the relevant conditions. The team recommends no trial and continued device-only activity for the present decision. The Board can close the larger inquiry on that basis. Four days already spent do not justify buying another experiment. A missing incident-cost component would instead leave this comparison unresolved; it would not be a negative cost result.

In a different continuation, suppose the required permissions and later trial allocation have actually been established. The agreed rule requires the service owner to suspend the dependent trial if the qualified forecast before the next month’s allocation exceeds eighty engineer-days while preserving the eight-day protected service reserve.

The capacity owner supplies a qualified forecast before allocation that exceeds eighty engineer-days with the eight-day reserve preserved. The service owner applies the agreed suspension rule to the affected trial; the Board reconsiders its scope, timing or rival. The forecast concerns next month’s planned shared workload. The service owner’s authority covers suspension of this trial, not redirection of the whole company. Independent device commitments and protected service continue under their existing authority.

If the same capacity issue is discovered during the original four-day preparation, there is no authorized trial to suspend. The result is an infeasible proposed allocation and a bounded return to the Board. Recovering the actual commitment changes the correct response.