A Commune in the Ivory Tower? – A new approach to architecture decisions
summary
Claims a non‑blocking, decentralized decision flow using the advice process from teal organizations, backed by lightweight ADRs that record context, consequences and a comments section capturing who gave what advice. Teams store ADRs in dev tooling (wiki, source control, even Jira) and surface them in a weekly architectural advice forum where affected parties give recorded advice. Outcome: removes the bottleneck, lets anyone decide, exposes ignored advice, and surfaces trust and “old‑guard” failure modes.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00The architect's struggle
- 5:13Mapping the pain points
- 7:46The advice process
- 10:31Architectural decision records
- 16:00The advice forum
- 21:22Failure patterns
- 26:24Scaling and adoption
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