Judging ‘It’s About Balance’ — The Path to Technical Excellence Through ADR Practice
summary
The talk explains a team's practical use of Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) with fields: Context, Decision, Basis of Decision, Consequences, and Compliance. It reports concrete outcomes—ADRs take over a year to show value, but they reduce review time, help authors catch errors, and increase confidence in proposals—and describes rules and workflow: align context first, compare trade-offs (including arguing the opposite), draft then review; AI is useful to list option features but cannot replace human context or final decisions. The team produces about 20 ADRs per year.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:08ADR importance and background
- 5:23ADR adoption triggers
- 6:26Feeling technical gaps and challenges
- 7:51Writing ADRs: barriers and solutions
- 9:14Three common anti-patterns
- 9:35Why ADR is needed now
- 11:23Can't express validity
- 13:29Biasing toward options
- 14:55Decisions beyond skill
- 16:21Changes from ADR practice
- 19:41Technical excellence in AI era
- 20:51Q&A
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