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Decision record template for business case

This ADR template emphasizes creating a business case for a decision, including critera, candidates, and costs.

Top-level

  • Title
  • Status
  • Evaluation criteria
  • Candidates to consider
  • Research and analysis of each candidate
    • Does/doesn't meet criteria and why
    • Cost analysis
    • SWOT analysis
    • Opinions and feedback
  • Recommendation

Low-level deep dive

Title:

  • A short present tense imperative phrase, less than 50 characters, like a git commit message.

Status:

  • One of proposed, accepted, rejected, deprecated, superseded, etc.

Evaluation criteria:

  • Summary: explain briefly what we seek to discover and why.

  • Specifics

Candidates to consider:

  • Summary: explain briefly how we discovered candidates, and draw attention to any outliers.

  • List all candidates and related options; what are we evaluating as potential solutions?

  • Specifics

Research and analysis of each candidate:

  • Summary: explain briefly the research methods, and draw attention to patterns, clusters, and outliers.

  • Does/doesn't meet criteria and why

    • Summary

    • Specifics

  • Cost analysis

    • Summary

    • Examples

      • Licensing, such as contract agreements and legal commitments

      • Training, such as upskilling and change management

      • Operating, such as support and maintenance

      • Metering, such as bandwidth and CPU usage

  • SWOT analysis

    • Summary

    • Strengths

    • Weaknesses

    • Opportunites

    • Threats

  • Internal opinions and feedback

    • Summary

    • Examples

      • By the team, ideally written by the actual person

      • From other stakeholders

      • Quality attributes a.k.a. cross-functional requirements

  • External opinions and feedback

    • Summary

    • Who is providing the opinion?

    • What are other candidates you considered?

    • What are you creating?

      • Examples

        • B2B or B2C

        • external-facing or employee-only

        • desktop or mobile

        • pilot or production

        • monolith or microservices

    • How did you evaluate the candidates?

    • Why did you choose the winner?

    • What is happening since then?

      • Examples

        • How is the winner performing?

        • What % of real-world production user traffic is flowing through the winner?

        • What kinds of integrations are involved, such as with continuous delivery pipelines, content management systems, analytics and metrics, etc.?

        • Knowing what you know now, what would you advise people to do differently?

  • Anecdotes

Recommendation:

  • Summary

  • Specifics