Publish
Publication is the start of a play's testing, not the end of its writing. And findability is a situation problem before it is a taxonomy problem.
Play: publish before you are confident
When: a play meets the evidence bar but you still feel it is not ready. That feeling is normal and mostly not information.
The move: publish with the provisional status visible. Treat the first three external uses as the test suite. Ask the users what the play failed to tell them, and fold the answers back in.
Signals: the play changes within a month of publication. A play that survives first contact unchanged was probably not tested, just tolerated.
When not to: when the play carries real risk if misapplied and the entry conditions are not yet sharp enough to prevent that.
Play: index by situation
When: the collection is large enough that readers cannot hold it in their heads. Roughly ten plays.
The move: organise findability around the reader's situation, not your topic taxonomy. A reader under pressure is searching for "my team keeps committing to work it cannot finish", not for the chapter your play lives in. If the entry conditions are written well, they are the index. Surface them.
Signals: readers find plays you did not point them at.
When not to: below roughly ten plays, a flat list beats any structure. Do not build the library before you have the books.
Antipattern: the broadcast
Publishing as pushing. The central team announces the new way, teams comply visibly and ignore it privately.
Amplification is pull. The yokoten that gets mistranslated as "copy the improvement everywhere" is actually go and see, then adapt: the receiving team pulls the improvement and re-derives it for their context. So the publishing job is not a broadcast channel. It is making what worked legible enough that other teams can find it and steal it well, including the conditions it worked under. A team looking to steal an improvement is searching by their situation, which is why this antipattern and the index-by-situation play are two sides of the same coin.
If you are pushing plays at people, you have built a compliance system with better typography.
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