Emergency drought rules add a mandatory water-use field to a permit form mid-project. What should the BA drive next for acceptance?
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Short Explanation
Emergency rules dropped a new mandatory field on the desk—update the acceptance checklist and tests now. Don’t leave the drought field as hallway folklore.
Full Explanation
When emergency drought rules add a mandatory water-use field to a permit form mid-project, the BA should drive updates to acceptance criteria and tests so the new mandatory field is verified. Emergency rules still require verifiable acceptance; urgency changes timing, not the need for criteria. Civic emergency mandates that skip acceptance updates produce forms that look complete while missing required drought data for enforcement and reporting.
Keeping prior criteria unchanged and treating the field as undocumented tribal knowledge fails conceptually because undocumented mandatory fields will be missed in testing and clerk training. Asking testers to ignore the new field until the emergency ends fails because the field is mandatory now under drought rules, not optional until later. Removing all existing form criteria to make room for the new field fails because new mandates amend acceptance; they do not erase unrelated valid criteria that still matter.
Exam caveat: Mid-project mandatory rule changes require acceptance and test updates, not silence or wholesale deletion of prior criteria. Operational check: update permit-form acceptance criteria to require the water-use field, amend test scripts, execute them, and communicate the change to clerks before the next release candidate under drought rules.