Decision Log Template
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Here’s a decision log in Markdown format, which you can hopefully convert to other formats, such as into a Notion database.
Decision log template
| Tracking number | Decision | Date | Applicable to | Description | Tradeoffs & Implications | Additional Context | Milestone |
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Notes
- Applicable to: Ideally you can add topic tags here and someone can search by the tag to find all relevant decisions.
- Tracking number: Gives you a way to understand the order of decisions made, beyond the date.
- Additional Context: Can include Slack conversation, issues, other relevant links.
Best practices
- Better imperfectly noted than incomplete
- Best decisions to log are those with cross-functional impact, such as release scope
- Encourage people adding to the log to announce when they have updated the decision log in the same Slack channel. This communicates scope widely.
- It may be best for your project to have multiple people adding to this decision log but it also may be best for your project to have a single person adding to this decision log, such as a project manager.
- If your project has an established decision-making framework, such as DACI or RACI, you can include this background information as well.