Practice Notes

Versioned, non-normative practice material — the how that sits above the standards.

What a Practice Note is. A Practice Note is a test or method a practitioner can run on their own estate. Each note is versioned and dated, explicitly non-normative — no note is part of the Transformation Decision Record standard or extends it — and is expected to be superseded rather than edited: when the thinking moves, a new version is issued and the old one remains on the record.

Articles explain why. Practice Notes explain how. Standards define what is governed. Keeping those apart is deliberate: a claim that belongs one layer up must not be pushed into a specification to make a footnote true.

Current notes

PN-01 — The Six-Part Change-Scope Test (v0.1, 26 July 2026)
Scope a consequential change by the decisions it touches — alongside, not instead of, scoping it by the work.
PN-02 — The Policy Rigour Test (v0.1, 26 July 2026)
Ten questions asked of one policy, to establish whether it is governed as a document or as a connected collection of decisions.

Notes are offered to be challenged. If you run one and it fails on your estate, that finding is useful — tell us.