Tag: decision-making

All the articles with the tag "decision-making".

• The myth of the 'right' architecture

  27 Jul, 2026

  There's no 'right' architecture to find and lock in — only one that fits the forces on you now. The real job is keeping it able to change when they shift.

• Architecture decision records

  24 Jul, 2026

  The decision is the cheap part; the reasoning behind it is what evaporates. Architecture decision records are a small, deliberate defence against that loss.

• You can't draw a boundary the business hasn't decided

  20 Jul, 2026

  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.

• One-way and two-way doors

  6 Jul, 2026

  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.