akurganow/triz-thinking

Walk a hard software problem through ARIZ-85C, Altshuller's nine-part algorithm of inventive problem solving, part by part. Use when the obvious fixes were tried and the problem is still there: a setting flipped back and forth between two teams who each hold a rule, or a fix that breaks something else while the next fix brings the first problem back. Use when the same issue keeps returning, every compromise failed, or the user suspects the problem is stated wrong. Use when two or three tensions are tied and what one choice improves makes another worse. Use when a contradiction-matrix lookup gave nothing usable. Use even when the question is short and never says TRIZ: a few failed attempts and "what is the way out?" count. The contradiction skill of this package takes a trade-off at first sight, before any fix was tried. This one takes it from there.

Resolve a trade-off between two software requirements with TRIZ, so the answer is a set of named inventive directions and not a list of tips. State the contradiction, set the ideal final result, read Altshuller's contradiction matrix or the separation principles, and adapt each principle to the user's system. Use when improving one thing makes another worse, when two requirements look incompatible, or when one thing must be both long and short, open and closed, frozen and editable. Use when the only option on the table is a middle setting, a split-the-difference limit or a pick of one side, and the user wants a smarter way or both. Use even when the user never says TRIZ, and even when they also want a note, a comment or a message drafted from the answer. Use even when a direct answer looks easy: the matrix names directions a plain answer misses. A problem that keeps coming back after fixes, tensions that feed each other, or a matrix lookup that gave nothing belong to the ariz skill of this package.