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Could your team explain a decision it made six months ago?

Pick a decision your team made about six months ago, and answer fifteen questions about what you can still find: the options, evidence, assumptions, who disagreed and when to revisit. See what was lost. Runs in your browser. No account, no card, no call.

One decision from about six months ago

Answer from what you can find today, not from memory. Nothing is sent.

Finding it

Could you find where the decision was recorded within a minute?

Is the question the decision answered written down?

Are the final decision and the date it was made recorded?

What was considered

Are the options that were considered written down?

Are the trade-offs between those options recorded?

Is the evidence available at the time recorded?

Is it noted how strong that evidence was?

What you believed

Are the assumptions the decision rested on written down?

Is it recorded what would have to be true for the decision to be wrong?

Is it recorded who made the decision?

Is it recorded who disagreed, and why?

What happens next

Were conditions set that should trigger a revisit?

Is a revisit scheduled?

Is the record linked to the decisions it depends on or affects?

Could a new joiner understand why from the record alone?

Answer the questions to see your score. It updates as you go.

Method: yes scores a question in full, partly scores half and no scores nothing. Each is weighted from one to three by how much it matters when someone later asks why the decision was made, and the score is the weighted share out of a hundred. Unanswered questions are left out.

Could your team explain a decision it made six months ago?

Pick a decision your team made about six months ago, and answer fifteen questions about what you can still find: the options, evidence, assumptions, who disagreed and when to revisit. See what was lost. Runs in your browser. No account, no card, no call.

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