When to use it.
Use it when the room is becoming faster, louder or more certain than the evidence deserves. It helps separate immediate safety, confirmed facts, assumptions, emotional reaction and distracting noise before choosing the next useful move.
How to use it.
- Use a real piece of work, not a theoretical case.
- Write short, testable statements rather than polished explanations.
- Name the person who can decide or act.
- Set a review point so the temporary picture can change.
Where it comes from.
Developed from Stay Useful, especially the Four-Box Pressure Check and the first-useful-action discipline.
Useful before impressive. Clear before fashionable.