PD024

Higher Process Model Reusability vs. Faster Initial Delivery

Business Context. Building highly reusable, modular process models takes more upfront design effort than building a single-purpose model tailored to the immediate project, slowing initial delivery.

Process TRIZ Resolution. Rather than over-investing in reusability for a one-off project, organizations should build the initial model to solve the immediate need and formally refactor it into reusable components only once a second use case actually appears.

Applicable TRIZ Principles

Principle 21 (Skipping) skips upfront reusability investment until a genuine second use case emerges.

Principle 15 (Dynamics) allows the model to evolve toward reusability incrementally rather than upfront.

Principle 34 (Discarding and Recovering) discards single-use design assumptions once a reusable pattern becomes clear.

Expected Outcome

Faster initial delivery

Reusability built on real evidence

Reduced speculative design effort

Sustainable long-term reuse

Decision Indicators

Teams spend significant effort building reusability that is never used.

Initial projects are delayed by speculative generalization.

Reusable components exist but have only ever had one consumer.

Refactoring for reuse happens only after painful duplication.

Design decisions are made without evidence of future reuse need.

If several of these indicators are present, the contradiction is likely active and the Process TRIZ resolution above should be evaluated.