Business problem
What needs to change for the business?
Method
From unclear request to owned execution.
CAERUS does not treat unclear requests as ready projects. Every serious project needs an objective, scope, owner, timeline, acceptance criteria and feasibility path.
CAERUS / Decision System
01Business problem
02User impact
03Constraint
04Solution path
05Next decision
The five questions
The first useful result is not a promise. It is a decision path.
User impact
Who is affected and what workflow should improve?
Constraint
What dependency, stakeholder, timing or operational limit shapes the solution?
Solution path
What is the smallest realistic path from problem to useful implementation?
Next decision
Who owns the next step and what must be decided before work expands?
What the method produces
The output is not a meeting. It is a decision path.
Before scope grows, CAERUS turns the request into a practical operating view: what matters, what blocks progress, what can be built and who owns the next step.
Decision map
Problem, users, constraints and next decision in one visible structure.
DELIVERS shared understanding
Scope frame
What is in, what is out and what should wait.
DELIVERS controlled implementation
Acceptance path
How useful work will be judged before implementation starts.
DELIVERS clear approval criteria
Scope discipline
A project is not ready until the decision is owned.
This keeps strategy practical, implementation controlled and communication honest.
01Objective
02Owner
03Acceptance criteria
Ready / Discovery / At risk
The method classifies what should happen next.
This prevents a vague request from becoming an expensive implementation promise too early.
Ready
Objective, owner, scope and acceptance criteria are clear enough to proceed.
Discovery needed
The business problem is real but one or more decisions need clarification.
At risk
The request depends on missing ownership, feasibility or business impact.
Next decision
Bring a request. We will find the decision.
Start with the business problem and CAERUS will help define scope, owner, acceptance criteria and the next realistic path.
Start with the problem01Business problem
02Constraint named
03Next decision