A Stable Basis
The designers may expect the arrangement to remain useful under familiar conditions.
Conditions for RevisionRisk Reduced Risk Shifted
Synthetic · Simulation/As of
When Must a Design Without Revision Conditions Stop?
A shared process is approved as a lasting arrangement. The record gives reasons for starting but none for reconsidering.
- Who Asks
- A person noticing a changed condition
- Who Is Affected
- People subject to the process
- Who Can Revise
- The approving role
Traces in This ScenarioInvented, not observed
The approval records its original assumptions.
No person or event is named as a trigger for review.
The Assumption
The conditions that support approval are assumed to remain in place.
Where the Readings Split
Keep the difference visibleA Closed Future
Even a failed assumption may not lead to correction if no one can reopen the choice.
Follow the Risk
A lasting arrangement lets people plan around a stable process.
People facing changed conditions must justify reopening a supposedly settled choice.