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It clears the sheet and carries the previous action forward so the team checks whether it happened.

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Decision log

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IDDateDecision, and the why in one lineDecided byAlternatives consideredStatus

The rationale is the payload. Everyone remembers what was decided; nobody remembers why, and the why is what stops the re-litigating.

Record the rejected options. "We considered X and chose Y because Z" ends the "did anyone think of X" meeting before it starts.

Decisions have IDs like risks do. D-007 in a status report is checkable; "as discussed" is not.

Superseded, never deleted. A reversed decision stays visible with its replacement linked; that trail is the project’s memory.

Log it the day it happens. A decision log reconstructed at closure is fiction with dates.

Pairs with the RAID log, which tracks the moving parts; this one tracks the calls you made. Everything saves in this browser only.

Prefer paper? Download the blank sheet as a PDF. The thinking behind it, and the nine tools it works with, is in The Project.

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