# Project decision record

This document contains a fictional example followed by a blank template. Copy it without an account. It does not describe a Stellary customer result.

## Filled example: a delayed API threatens a customer export

- Goal: make orders available to the customer on Friday.
- Available fact: the supplier reports a three-day delay to the export API.
- Impact: automated export may miss the milestone; other features do not depend on this API.
- Options: delay delivery; ship without export; offer a checked manual export.
- Proposed choice: ship unaffected features and prepare the manual export, subject to customer acceptance.
- Decision owner: product owner. Customer approval is still outstanding.
- Delivery owner: the export team; name the actual person in the project.
- Check: on Thursday, open the file with test orders and verify columns, totals, duplicates and access controls.
- Fallback: agree a new export date if the check fails or the customer rejects the format.
- Decision status: proposed, not accepted.
- Sources: in a real project, link the supplier response, affected cards and acceptance check. These records are not supplied in this fictional example.

## Blank template

Project:
Review date:
Goal / next milestone:
Verified fact and source:
Information still unknown:
Impact on the goal, date or cost:
Options and trade-offs:
Proposed choice:
Confirmed decision owner:
Status: proposed / accepted / rejected / deferred
Reason for the decision:
Confirmed action owner:
Result to check:
Next check date:
Fallback condition:
Evidence links:

Keep earlier decisions when revising them. Record the reason and date of the change.

Guide: https://stellary.co/blog/project-management-vs-project-piloting/
Status report: https://stellary.co/blog/project-status-report-ai-template/