Creating Effective and Objective Architectural Decision Records (ADRs)
summary
Advocates a lightweight ADR practice with a clear template (title, status, summary, stakeholders, context, in/out-of-scope), uses weighted requirements and a scoring matrix to turn subjective pros/cons into objective decisions, and shows a paywall case where scoring flips the choice (43 vs 33) after adding a better vendor option. Uses Confluence and LLM summaries for discoverability, TOGAF/ISO25010 taxonomies for stakeholders and ilities, and keeps ADRs short unless the decision truly requires 25 pages.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction and context
- 4:49Challenges in decision making
- 13:22Pitfalls in decision approaches
- 17:27The structured approach
- 21:58Practical implementation steps
- 38:10Discussion and conclusion
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