Documenting architecture decisions
Decisions form an excellent knowledge base, and this enhances predictability in decision making. In a decentralized decision-making environment, sharing decisions consistently helps teams to understand the rationale and thought process behind decisions. It enables teams to make similar arguments and take similar approaches when dealing with comparable situations.
Transparently publishing architecture decisions also enables non-invasive controls and oversight. Enterprise architects and other senior leaders can review published decisions and provide their feedback at the earliest possible juncture before the team progresses far into the implementation cycle.
In the previous chapter, we have covered architecture documentation, where ADR is one of the critical elements of architecture documentation. ADR helps architects and teams to document architecture in a consistent, structured form.
Compared to traditional architecture decision making...
