| What advice is being requested, for whom, and who will decide? | PSD.1 - Bound the Decision-Support Engagement and Authority Boundary | An agreed question and scope for the inquiry, with the participants’ authority clear. |
| Are people describing different problems? Whose concern is missing? | PSD.2 - Recover Participants, Concerns, and Affected Systems for a Decision-Support Inquiry, PSD.3 - Generate Plural Problem Formulations, PSD.4 - Set and Reopen the Problem Boundary | The affected participants, several consequential problem formulations, and a justified boundary for the inquiry. |
| How can different models or problem-structuring methods help? | PSD.5 - Construct Complementary Situation and Option Models, PSD.6 - Select Problem-Structuring Methods and Combine Them When Needed, PSD.7 - Facilitate Decision-Support Inquiry and Preserve Material Dissent | Models chosen for their questions and limits, a suitable method or justified combination, and an inquiry that preserves material disagreement. |
| What could we do besides the first proposed option? | PSD.8 - Generate Decision Alternatives | Alternatives that differ in how they would address the problem. |
| What matters in the choice, and what might change the comparison? | PSD.9 - Represent Values and Trade-Offs, PSD.10 - Represent Decision-Relevant Uncertainty and Evidence Limits, PSD.11 - Compare Consequences of Decision Alternatives, PSD.12 - Test Robustness and Sensitivity of Decision Alternatives and Their Comparison | Explicit values and trade-offs, useful uncertainty statements, compared consequences, and sensitivity to assumptions. |
| What can we responsibly recommend now? | PSD.13 - Prepare and Return a Decision-Support Recommendation | A recommendation, retained alternatives, a worthwhile probe, a precise request for missing evidence, or a justified abstention. |
| When should earlier advice be reconsidered? | PSD.14 - Arrange Decision Follow-up or Reassess Advice After a Change | Observation and interpretation responsibilities for needed follow-up, or a qualified advice update with its affected premises and limits. |
| How do we find and advise on a development opportunity? | DOCA.1 - Bound the Development-Opportunity Inquiry, DOCA.7 - Bound the Development-Direction Advising Engagement, DOCA.8 - Requalify Changed Development Opportunities | A useful inquiry, qualified terms for development advice, or a requalified opportunity after its premises change. Enter at the missing result; PSD retains comparison and recommendation. |