Structured documentation of decisions, context, and consequences to ensure traceability of technical and organizational strategies.
Decision Documentation captures decisions, context, alternatives, and consequences to ensure traceability of technical and organizational strategies. It supports governance and architecture, improves knowledge sharing, reduces duplicated decisions and eases onboarding. Implementation uses simple templates, explicit ownership, and review checkpoints and versioning.
Measures the number of ADRs created per time period.
Percentage of entries updated within a year.
Average time from problem definition to finalized documentation.
Decision documented with alternatives, migration plan, and risks.
Evaluation of SQL vs NoSQL with benchmarks and operational effort.
Definition of versioning model, compatibility rules, and deprecation process.
Select a template and adapt it to organizational needs.
Define storage location and versioning rules.
Establish review and approval process; assign owners.
Introduce regular maintenance cycles and reporting.