SYSE.24:4.4 - Restore parity before comparing

Apply the same five parity elements to every arrangement: acceptance conditions, operating environment, configuration boundary, evidence horizon, and burden categories. Assess ready demonstrations and internal-development options against representative project conditions. For a provider arrangement, count both the fee and the receiving team’s remaining Work, retained risks, and exit burden outside that fee. For internal development, include the opportunity cost, capability gap, assurance, support, and time until use.

Do not force unlike consequences into one weighted total when that would hide a protected condition or a non-compensable loss. Keep a tie-set or a partial order when the available evidence supports several non-dominated arrangements.

Apply C.11.CRC only when the missing input to arrangement comparison is what a finite proposed change contributes relative to the project’s current configuration. Name the current configuration S0, the finite change Δ, the realizable changed configuration S1, and the arrangement-choice decision that will use the comparison. Work applying C.11.CRC returns only that configuration-relative contribution claim. It neither constructs an obtaining arrangement nor chooses among arrangements.