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To make architecture decisions based on evidence, you must resolve ambiguous design choices by eliciting typed inputs and compiling them into testable obligations, forbidden states, and hypotheses. This enforces verification checks before final selection.

Validating technical tradeoffs during system design requires producing up to three decision witness plans. This method applies explicit ranking logic and uncertainty-reduction workflows to evaluate candidates against hard requirements and constraints.

The best way to resolve ambiguous product design requirements is to transform them into explicit obligations and forbidden states. This formalization-to-review pipeline ensures proposals avoid explicitly forbidden outcomes and satisfy hard constraints.

Yes, you can use structured design reasoning for organizational design scenarios. The uncertainty-reduction workflow applies to org design situations where correctness depends on constraints and evidence, evaluating hypotheses to refuse or select with explicit blocker criteria.

Checking if a design proposal violates forbidden states involves an obligation and forbidden-state checking process. This ensures proposals satisfy hard requirements and explicitly avoid forbidden outcomes through enforced tests for hard claims and assumptions.

You should avoid an evidence-first approach for design decisions when correctness does not depend on strict constraints. If a scenario tolerates intuition alone without needing testable assumptions or formal verification, this structured workflow is unnecessary.