Fender

Judge whether something actually produces value in a concrete scenario. Value is a beneficial relational property between subject and object, conditioned on the states of both sides, that only holds in a specific scenario. Typical uses: judging whether a value proposition holds, mapping a capability to a concrete use scenario, diagnosing why no one uses it or why they don't stick, clarifying how to position or state the value, assessing whether something is worth investing in, or judging whether you can borrow someone else's approach (e.g. "is this idea sound?", "does anyone actually want this?", "why did we roll it out and no one uses it?", "why do people try it once and never come back?", "can we copy what someone else did?"). When the thing being judged has a decision-maker (who pays / signs off) that is not the same as the actual end user (enterprise software, internal platforms, etc.), first state which side you're analyzing for and split the two value relationships to run separately.