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Three role offers reveal one feasible assignment

A fictional voluntary workshop needs one illustration role, one editing role and one narration role. There are three participants labelled A, B and C. A offers illustration or editing, B offers editing only, and C offers narration only. Each participant takes exactly one role, each role needs exactly one participant, and nobody takes a role outside their stated offer. These are the complete constraints for this example. They describe a planning exercise, not an assessment of the participants’ broader abilities.

The fictional role offers in the TalentMeld workshop-role worksheetDeclared offers for this fictional workshopA: illustration or editingB: editing only · C: narration onlyOne role per participant · one participant per roleComplete assignment must respect every offer

01

Place the roles with only one available contributor

Only A offers illustration, so illustration must go to A if all three roles are to be filled. Only C offers narration, so narration must go to C. That leaves B for editing, which B has offered. The assignment is therefore A to illustration, B to editing and C to narration. Every participant has one role and every role has one participant. Checking the constraints after writing the assignment is useful because a list that fills every role could still accidentally assign one person twice or use a role they did not offer.

A complete assignment satisfying the rules in the TalentMeld workshop-role worksheetUnique feasible complete assignmentA → illustrationB → editing · C → narrationGiving editing to A leaves illustration unfilledFeasible does not mean preferred by participants

02

Explain why the tempting alternative does not work

A also offers editing, but assigning editing to A would leave illustration without a contributor. B and C have not offered illustration, and A cannot take two roles under the stated rules. This is why the extra offer does not produce a second feasible complete assignment. The result is unique within the fictional model, not a judgement that A is better at illustration than editing. The constraints, rather than a score or personal characteristic, determine the result. Keeping that explanation beside the assignment makes the reasoning inspectable and limits what the conclusion can legitimately mean.

A changed availability creates a gap in the TalentMeld workshop-role worksheetIf C becomes unavailableNo remaining offer covers narrationReport the gap; do not invent a new offerRevise the brief or discuss new participationPreserve offers, availability and rules together

03

Record what happens when availability changes

If C becomes unavailable and the other offers remain unchanged, narration has no contributor. The original complete assignment is then infeasible. The worksheet should show the gap rather than silently assigning narration to someone who did not offer it. A group could revise the project, seek another volunteer or discuss a changed offer, but any such change belongs in a new version. Save the required roles, participant offers, availability, capacity rule and assignment together. This creates a reusable planning record that identifies both the solution under current assumptions and the reason it stops working when those assumptions change.

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