research-document MS-HANDOFF-2026-D4A8

Select the first measurable communication pilot slice

Identifier: MS-HANDOFF-2026-D4A8
Research Area: engineering-handoff
Discipline: software-engineering, human-computer-interaction
Status: completed
Version: 0.1
Priority: high
Updated: 2026-07-22
Source: missions/completed/MS-HANDOFF-2026-D4A8--select-first-pilot-slice.md

Mission

Objective

Select one two-to-four-week communication problem that has evidence of value, observable outcomes, bounded risk, and a falsifiable pilot.

Scope

Compared task-handoff reconstruction, architecture explanation, newcomer onboarding, and code-change rationale support. Product implementation was excluded.

Success criteria

One reversible pilot selection, explicit alternatives, acceptance measures, counterevidence, and stopping rules.

Verification

Completed through RP-HANDOFF-2026-A8E1 and DF-HANDOFF-2026-5C9B. The decision is provisional until the pilot's acceptance test is preregistered.