This, the original manuscript, has a 5 page introductory section, after which the paper describes in detail each of seven methodologies. Brainwriting, Nominal Group Technique, Delphi, ISM, Options Field Method, Options Profile Method and Tradeoff Analysis Method. It was issued as a September 1982 Report by Center for Interactive Management, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Thornton Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. The report was never published as a stand-alone article under its "Consensus Methodologies" title, but was published twice as Appendices in other publications.

When unpacking after Warfield died, Rose Warfield finally found Warfield's September 1982 original document with the extra 5 pages intact. The document was a tattered, messy, faded 3rd or 4th generation photocopy, used by staff members over and over again in the Charlottesville offices and later in the GMU Interactive Management offices in Fairfax. Messy as it was, I scanned it anyway, on 10/29/2011 and saved it with the filename: Consensus Methodologies (Original manuscript).

Again, still unpacking in 2012, I found a good clean copy of the same document, in a spiral binding with a nice gray cover and clean neat title pages. It was not until I saw that gray cover in 2012 that I realized this was a Report from Center for Interactive Management, of which Warfield had been Director in the year 1982 while still at University of Virginia. Meanwhile, the staff at GMU's Special Collections had found a better looking and cleaner version in Box 40 Folder 17 of Warfield Special Collection. GMU staff had been looking through boxes hunting for unpublished documents suitable for the new digitizing program at the Library and the manuscript for Consensus Methodologies was added to Warfield Digital Collection at GMU. In the ensuing years, excerpts from the Consensus Methodologies paper were used over and over again in Center for Interactive Management reports, in Warfield's book A Science of Generic Design, in “A User's Guide to Public Systems Methodology,” “Interactive Management Spectrum,” and probably other titles I can't think of right now. References to Warfield's use of Consensus Methodologies go back to about 1980 in GMU Finding Aid list of titles. R.w. 19 October 2012.

The first publication was 1983, in the SGSR (Society for General Systems Research) Yearbook as Appendix to Warfield's Presidential Address to Annual Meeting of SGSR. The annual Presidential Address was always published in the SGSR Yearbook, of which Bela Banathy was editor. When Warfield mailed his 59-page Presidential Address to Bela, he tossed the Consensus Methodologies paper in the same package, as an extra item for Bela to read. (As usual, I imagine Warfield didn't take time to write any note explaining why the Consensus Methodologies was there, just expecting the recipient to figure it out.) Bela decided to use the extra paper as an Appendix. He pruned off the first five pages of Warfield's Consensus Methodologies, then tacked the remaining 29 pages on to the end of the Presidential Address. So there you can find Consensus Methodologies today, in General Systems Vol XXVII, 1982, Appendix pages 45-74. Consensus Methodologies was published a second time, when Warfield used the same materials as did Bela, as part of his own book A Science of Generic Design, 1984. Iowa State Univ Press. (pages 454-479.). In his own book he gives General Systems Vol. 227, ©1982 by SGSR as a reference to materials he used. And doubtless had to write and get formal permission from Bela to do so. (R.w. circa 2012-2013)