Tag: decision-making
All the articles with the tag "decision-making".
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Architecture decision records
The decision is the cheap part; the reasoning behind it is what evaporates. Architecture decision records are a small, deliberate defence against that loss.
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You can't draw a boundary the business hasn't decided
Drawing module boundaries where the business already cut them assumes the business decided where. Often it hasn't — and that unmade decision is the architect's job.
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One-way and two-way doors
Not every decision deserves the same agonising. The trick is telling two-way doors — the ones you can walk back through — from one-way doors you can't.
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It depends
The most honest two words in architecture — why every decision is a trade-off, and the real skill is finishing the sentence.