From a useful result to further development

Suppose a team can deliver its current product, but a more demanding order is beyond its capabilities. Buying a specialist’s result might meet the immediate need. Learning to produce it would change what the team can do. Learning how to recognize the next limitation, obtain or invent a needed method and organize its acquisition would change how the team can continue developing. These are different results, with different evidence.

The Library helps connect them without requiring the same arrangement everywhere. A person working with an AI, several collaborating teams and a company with a development office need different domain methods and allocations of work, resources and authority. An office is one possible arrangement, not a prerequisite for development.

The general methods are in Core: connect development work (C.40.OD), connect a method, the capability to perform it and the conditions for its use (C.40.JD), and continue from a result to new attainable problems (C.40.NP). The DPFs supply the particular mechanisms of learning, research, engineering, management and other practices. Developing a method, changing an agent’s capability and actually performing work remain distinct contributions.