CCAO-F

A sound use-case assessment must first scope what the use case actually is before it can be checked against anything else: identifying the audience, decision impact, and reversibility of the outputs (step 1) establishes the risk profile of the proposed use. Only with that risk profile in hand does it make sense to compare the use case against organizational policy and applicable regulatory considerations (step 3), since the relevant policies and regulations to check depend on who is affected and how consequential and reversible the outcome is. The assessment rationale is then written up for traceability (step 5) as the basis for the actual proceed/modify/decline determination (step 4), with the specific data types and sensitivity involved (step 2) treated as the final implementation-level check. Sequences that place the policy/regulatory comparison (step 3) or the documentation step (step 5) before the audience/impact/reversibility scoping (step 1) are incoherent, because they require checking a use case against policy or writing up its rationale before its risk profile has even been established.