STR.2:3 - Forces

• Early signals can protect a revisable option, but weak observations can also provoke costly churn.
• Explicit assumptions help recovery, while important strategic reliance often lives in ordinary forecasts and promises.
• Preserving earlier work saves effort, but only where its basis still supports the same use.
• Broad discovery can reveal hidden reliance, while a single known decision may need only one direct comparison.
• A qualified uncertainty statement can be useful even when the decision cannot yet be settled.