STR.13:5.2 - A wording repair and a candidate branch

A strategy note says “approve the portfolio” where the established method already distinguishes retained alternatives from jointly authorized work. Readers repeatedly mistake a shortlist for allocation. The maintainer rewrites the instruction to name the actual result and checks the affected examples. This is a description repair, not a new method variant.

Separately, the team’s present routine begins every direction inquiry with a full scenario workshop. It proposes a reusable change: test decisive eligibility constraints first, while retaining scenario work when it can still distinguish feasible choices. That changes an entry or ordering rule. It is a candidate branch whose preserved and changed semantics, intended situations and limits should be explicit.

The word change supplies no evidence for the new branch’s effectiveness. A later local use can supply an occurrence with its conditions; it does not by itself establish transfer to a different team, decision or authority arrangement.