How to Stop Reopening the Same Decisions

If you keep reopening the same decisions, you do not have a decision problem. You have a decision memory problem.

Debate is useful early. Repeated debate later is expensive.

Why decisions loop

Usually one of these is missing:

• clear decision record
• criteria used to decide
• linkage to affected work
• accountable owner

Without these, new stakeholders reset the conversation.

What to do instead

Record each decision with:

1. what was decided
2. why it was decided
3. what it changes
4. when it should be reviewed

That turns debate into progress.

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