Documented decisions outlast everyone.
The single governance habit that protects organizations more than any other — and why most teams skip it.
People leave. Context leaves with them. The one habit that survives turnover is a written record of why a decision was made — not just what was decided, but the trade-offs weighed, the options rejected, and the conditions under which the team would revisit it.
Most organizations skip this because in the moment the reasoning feels obvious. Six months later, with new people and changed circumstances, that same reasoning is invisible — and the decision gets relitigated from scratch, or worse, silently reversed.
A decision log is the cheapest insurance an organization can buy. A few sentences at the point of decision saves weeks of archaeology later.