Who fit create ADR?

Consider areas like specific people, or specific roles, or specific teams, or specific departments; also consider if people, or roles, or teams, or department dey wey fit commission ADR, wey mean say dem fit request one wey another person go author.

Example answer: Any person for our organization wey don read di architecture decision record README page fit propose ADR, wey mean say di person fit start to write am, and share am with di team.

Wetin justify to raise ADR?

Consider areas like your organization team ways of working, your software system structure, cross-team coordination, long-term maintainability, external interfaces, who you want make e benefit, and di like.

Example answer: We want create ADR wen we want make future developers understand di “why” of wetin we dey do.

Wetin justify to no raise ADR?

Consider areas like decisions wey no be about architecture, or wey tiny like minimal-risk or self-contained or single-developer, or wey dem already cover fully for another place like by standards or policies or documentation, or wey temporary like workarounds or proofs of concepts or experiments.

Example answer: We want skip ADR wen decision limited for scope and time and risk and cost, or wen dem already cover am for another place.

Wetin be di lifecycle of ADR?

Consider areas like di creation process, research process, decisioning process, implementation process, and sunsetting process. Consider how to track di ADR lifecycle as time dey go, like how to move di ADR from one state to di next state, and also how to communicate dis to stakeholders.

Example answer: We want make ADR get five lifecycle stages: Initiating → Researching → Evaluating → Implementing → Maintaining → Sunsetting.

Wetin be di criteria for lifecycle steps of ADR?

Consider areas like acceptance criteria for ADR, wey mean say how you go know say e good enough to progress from one lifecycle step to di next? Di problem clear well well? Dem don consider di alternatives? Dem understand and document di trade-offs well enough? All relevant context dey place? All relevant stakeholders dey involved? Dem don incorporate all feedback?

Example answer: We want make stakeholders vote on ADR wen di active team 1) don complete their research, 2) don complete their evaluation, 3) don publish di ADR proposal to di stakeholders with request for comments and timebox of one week, 4) dem don incorporate and address all stakeholder comments.

Which roles and responsibilities dey interact with ADR?

Consider roles like proposer, researcher, evaluator, reviewer, approver, maintainer, and di like. Consider responsibilities like communication with stakeholders, to make sure say expectations dey met, to share on di website or intranet, and to review di work periodically and especially wen relevant changes happen.

Example answer: We want make each ADR always get primary contact person, secondary contact person, and accountable team; dem dey responsible for communications, publications, maintenance, periodic review at least once per year, and eventual sunsetting as e needed.

How governance dey interact with ADR?

Consider areas like your organization ways of working, any special compliance needs like for legal aspects or human resource aspects, how you want handle consensus versus conflict versus escalation. Areas or people or teams dey wey fit get more influence pass others regarding ADR, like to fit approve am, or vote on am, or veto am?

Example answer: Di governance of ADR dey for dis priority order: di CEO, di CTO, di CLO, di team wey implement ADR, di experts for di team wey know di AD pass. No one else get governance unless dem describe am for di ADR.

Which principles dey interact with ADR?

Consider areas like your organization ways of working wey include to move quickly versus to move slowly, for decision consensus versus decision conflict, and for risk preferences versus safety preferences, public discussion versus private discussion, and di like.

Example answer: We dey use di leadership principles of bias for action, disagree-and-commit, 70% estimates dey good enough for easily-reversable easily-isolatable decisions, and public ways of working except confidential information as our organization confidentiality agreement describe.