Decision Log app
Hi all,
did you hear about architecture decision record? It's quite popular methodology do keep your architecture decisions in one place for one project.
It was in technology radar in ADOPT phase.
I'm thinking about an app to manage your all decision in company in one place. Not only technical ones but also business decisions.
I had experience that decision are not well published in companies like :
- Wiki page
- communicator
and those decision often have to reference to previous related decisions.
It is almost impossible to find interesting you decision.
Design docs in Google docs, with comment threads could also serve this purpose maybe? I worked at a company where we discussed technical options extensively in docs, and it was very helpful to get into the thinking about a project later.
Or do you mean decisions that are taken after a project is started?
In every stage of project life. First step is write down decisions but Was it easy to find the decisions of other teams you were interested in?
Well in this case the decisions were organised per project - what the goals are and multiple options for achieving them with tradeoffs (and discussions about different options regarding that).
This only really captures the beginning of the project, nobody updates things later. You don't often see when a team prioritises another feature, or learns something new and adjusts plans.