Decision records (DRs)
A decision record is a way to initiate, debate, and archive an important choice, along with its context and consequences — for any part of an organization, not just engineering: strategy, sales, marketing, product, HR, risk, project, and technology.
Bring this practice into Claude
This project ships two Claude Skills so an AI assistant can apply this same discipline directly in your editor or terminal — one for anyone writing a decision record, one for maintaining this repository.
Explore
- Guide — what a decision record is and why it matters, for leaders across the business.
- Tutorial — write your first decision record in under 20 minutes.
- Template — copy-paste, with step-by-step suggestions.
- Examples — worked records across strategy, sales, marketing, product, HR, risk, project, and technology.
- Checklist — for deciding whether to write one, writing it well, and reviewing it.