STR.6:4.5 - Allow the possibility space to change

A new beneficiary, result, constraint, means or useful characteristic may make the old family boundaries inadequate. Identify what changed and regenerate only the affected alternatives. Keep the reason the earlier set was adequate for its earlier question.

Enter coupled problem-and-way search directly when several working problems and available ways need development together. FPF C.40:4.3 supplies that conditional problem-construction and target-transfer contribution. State each problem’s required result and protected conditions. Construct a few meaningful changes in the recipient, operating conditions, demanded result or available means; explain why each changed problem is valid and how its difficulty can be examined. A conjectured opportunity still needs its receiving problem qualified.

Recover or develop ways through section 4.4. Where a way from one problem could help another, apply it, or a justified adaptation, to material from the target problem. Examine the target’s own required result and conditions. Keep successful, failed and mixed transfers distinct; a source success does not settle the target.

Use that result to choose the next problem or way change: recover a missing target condition, narrow the requested result, revise the operation or stop the unsupported transfer. Return the examined problem–way combinations and the next answer-changing question. Try only transfers whose attainable contribution warrants their burden. If an existing way already answers the fixed target problem adequately, use it without generating more problems.

Searching more densely within a fixed set of characteristics is different from changing what results and differences count. Use C.18’s possibility-space distinctions when the project makes an open-ended-search claim. In ordinary work, the practical consequence is simpler: a newly relevant customer-local result can warrant a new family rather than a lower score for the old cross-customer offering.