Architecture Decision Records (ADR) / Documentation Maintenance
Kind: tension
Record: tension:architecture-decision-records-adr-documentation-maintenance
Canonical: Schema
"architecture-decision-records" (evolution-principles layer) is traded against "Documentation Maintenance" (evolution-principles layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Documentation Maintenance" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Quality Attributes / Competing Attributes and before Evolutionary Architecture / Governance Discipline.