DSP First Pass

Awaiting source text

This section exists in the source handbook as a heading with four empty sub-headings beneath it. None has any text. Nothing has been written here in its place.

The four are: Step-by-step first-pass application, Inputs and outputs and interactions for each process, How modules support each process during the first iteration, and Iterative loops and feedbacks.

What is known so far

Unusually among the gaps, most of the substance this section would summarise does exist, spread across the two technical chapters. A reader can assemble a first-pass route from what is already written.

The step-by-step sequence

Each of the six processes is documented with its own systematic steps:

	Process	Steps documented
1	Asset / Network Evaluation	Nine steps, from defining scope to preparing outputs
2	Problem Framing & Scope	Four stages, from context and drivers to intervention ideation
3	Risk Reduction Analysis	Nine steps, from interpreting risk outputs to preparing the shortlist
4	Detailed Option Assessment	Two stages, with a seven-step MCA sequence inside the first
5	Portfolio Optimisation	Ten steps, from receiving upstream outputs to packaging the portfolio
6	Outcome Assessment	Not written in the source

Inputs, outputs and interactions for each process

Every process ends with an output schema defining exactly what the next stage receives. The chain is summarised in what each hands to the next.

How modules support each process

The master diagram gives the module-to-stage matrix directly, and each module's own Dependencies section describes the exchange from its side.

Iterative loops and feedbacks

Every documented process carries an explicit iteration section, and Integration with IMP describes the four-step loop between evidence and decision.

What this page should cover

A single narrative walkthrough of one complete pass, which the per-process documentation does not provide. The value it would add is continuity: showing how a specific problem moves through all six stages, what it looks like at each handover, and where a first pass can reasonably stop short of the full method.

The most useful missing piece is guidance on what a first pass omits. Given that the handbook stresses proportionality throughout, and that iteration continues only until the evidence supports progression, a first pass is presumably expected to be lighter than a full application. What may be deferred to the second pass is not stated anywhere.