📖What it means
A named way of working through a whole activity, expressed as ordered SEGMENTS, each a step in the decision loop. A methodology is a LIVING record: it evolves by stating an issue as an observed event with evidence, placing it in exactly ONE segment, and updating the agent, app and service-track handbooks together. Every segment carries a FENCE — what it is NOT and which neighbour covers that — because without one, placing an issue is taste. Carolverse keeps three: BLOOM, GERMINATE and ARC.
📖Easily confused with
[{"term": "cookbook", "distinction": "A cookbook is a set of independent recipes; a methodology is an ordered path through one activity, and its segments are decided BEFORE the tool."}]
📖Filed under
Category: governance.
See also: ARC (migration methodology)
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