Decision Record with Alternatives

Kind: technique

Layer: Evolution Principles

Record: lexicon:decision-record-with-alternatives

Canonical: Lexicon

A technique for recording a decision together with the options rejected and the forces that decided it.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Risk Register and before Force Analysis.

Category

• Architecture Review Evolution Governance

Refactors

• Golden Hammer
• Architecture Decision Records
• Greenfield Development

Linked from

• Anti-patterns
• Architecture Review / Evolution / Governance Artifacts