STR.14:4.1 - Anchor the conflict in actual or proposed work
Name the strategic subject, receiving decision, useful contribution, relevant horizon and specific interference. Distinguish an observed conflict in performed work from a prospective conflict in a plan or intended-use case.
For actual practice, recover the qualified occurrence and conditions that support the claim. For a possible arrangement, state the proposed configuration, its assumptions and what would realize and later test it. A plausible plan is not evidence of successful performance.
Recover the relations that can change the conflict’s answer. The following questions illustrate different relations to examine; use those relevant to the case.
| Question | Relation to recover |
|---|---|
| How is the required result obtained? | The parts of the way of working and any required order among its actions. |
| Which work interferes with other work? | Actual or planned work that overlaps, depends on another result or competes for the same person’s time or other means. |
| What is being changed? | The work’s relation to the product, organization, person or platform it changes. |
| What does the description represent? | The plan or model’s correspondence to the work or subject being described, including a material condition it omits. |
| What makes performance possible? | The participant’s needed capability and access, and the provider contribution on which the work depends. |
| Who can change the commitment? | Each decision holder’s authority over the scope, timing, resources or permitted use at issue. |
In SensorCo, the proposed trial needs preparation before customer use and interpretation, but current incident response must remain available during that work. The same engineers contribute to both. The trial’s order of actions and the staffing plan therefore answer different questions: what must precede customer use, and whether the required people can cover the overlapping demands. Compare them together.
Preserve these relations when comparing a narrower trial, changed timing or a qualified substitute. A sequence-only roadmap would hide the continuing incident demand, while a monthly total can hide the critical-day collision examined in section 5.1.