Start with your work
You do not need to read the Library from beginning to end. Bring a situation, the result you need and what currently prevents you from obtaining it. Choose an entry below, or search the publications for the difficulty in ordinary and technical language.
| What you are trying to do | Where to begin |
|---|---|
| Find a way to obtain a result when the familiar answer is insufficient | Find and develop a way to obtain a result (FPF C.39). It connects existing answers, missing constructions and the use that needs the result. |
| Develop your own, a team’s or an organization’s ability to continue beyond its present limits | Construct and continue open-ended development (FPF C.40.OD), together with the domain methods needed for the actual change. |
| Design, acquire, integrate or maintain a functioning system | Engineering. |
| Make direction, promises, resources and collective work fit together | Management. |
| Obtain or check a mathematical or physical answer, model, algorithm or notation | Foundational Thinking. Apply the needed method yourself or have a capable specialist or AI apply it; learning to perform it yourself is a separate choice. |
| Help a person acquire or retain a capability for later work | Human Capability Engineering. |
| Investigate a question, design a decision, explain material or work in another field | Further domain frameworks, including research, decision design, explanation and narrativization. |
Before applying a method, read Using FPF Library. It explains how to find a useful contribution, read its conditions, connect it to the rest of the work and distinguish a source citation from a direction to apply another method. An adequate known answer can be used directly; a larger question may need several connected methods. Their order in a file is not an instruction to perform them all.