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Decision Log
How can decision log improve people, teams, or organisational effectiveness?
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Purpose. Use the decision log to preserve consequential programme decisions, their rationale, ownership and implementation. Application. It creates organisational memory for later managers and reviewers and prevents settled questions from being reopened simply because the original reasoning has been forgotten. Decisions made through formal governance should also appear in the governance decision register where that process requires it. Completion discipline. Create entries at the level defined by the template, use
Use context
Purpose, application, discipline.
Purpose
Use the decision log to preserve consequential programme decisions, their rationale, ownership and implementation.
Application
It creates organisational memory for later managers and reviewers and prevents settled questions from being reopened simply because the original reasoning has been forgotten. Decisions made through formal governance should also appear in the governance decision register where that process requires it.
Completion discipline
Create entries at the level defined by the template, use a stable identifier where one is available, link the supporting record and assign an owner, status and review point. Update entries without erasing decision history, and apply the access and retention rules appropriate to the information.
Field summary
Structured sections without protected files.
Decision
Decision number, PWBS number, Decision description, Background information
Protected resources
Included resource formats.
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