Reference eligibility: eligible — Institutional or method-author operating guidance documents this procedure; no tool-seller customer-success claim is admitted.
This is a retained audit record, not an eligible reference example. Inspect source eligibility.
leadership/strategy · administration/project coordination / comm-19
Atlassian DACI decision record
A decision has an explicit coordinator, decision-maker, contributors, and affected audience.
documented-procedure · conventional-workflow · Source account, not a validated implementation
What goes in
- Decision question
- Evidence
- Options and constraints
What comes out
- Decision and rationale
- Follow-up tasks
Documented sequence
Order described in the source account; not a sequence between pattern families.
- Create a question-centered shared document
- Assign a driver and one approver
- Identify contributors and informed parties
- Record context, evidence, criteria, and options
- Gather input
- Assign remaining information tasks
- Have the approver decide
- Record and share the outcome
Checks described
- Separate contributor input from final authority
- Record reasons for future reference
What changes with context
- Requires a person with legitimate decision authority
- Contributors can be consulted together or individually
Shared patterns · provisional interpretation
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Assemble grounded evidence
Distributed source material → traceable retrieval, synthesis, or a decision-ready evidence packet
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Compare options for a decision
Options and contextual criteria → reasoned ranking, recommendation, or recorded authorized choice
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Coordinate commitments to closure
An objective involving people or teams → accountable next actions, handoffs, tracking, and agreed closure
Fit: mapped. Exploratory analyst coding of collected source summaries; not independently tested
Could this transfer?
Hypothetical: a festival team could select a venue using a named decider, explicit criteria, and a record of rejected alternatives.
Limit: Assigning roles cannot create authority absent from the organization.
Evidence limits and unknowns
Summary through context_constraints paraphrase source-backed mechanics. structural_motifs, candidate_midlevel_pattern, transfer_example_explicitly_hypothetical and transfer_limit are analyst interpretations, not tested findings.
- Whether listed benefits hold in practice
- Escalation when approver is unavailable
Source eligibility and effectiveness
Allowed use: process reference with explicit limits . Source eligibility is not proof of effectiveness, safety or transferability.
Review attribution: AI-assisted source review · 2026-10-18T03:26:44.526806+00:00.
- Eligibility, where granted, permits a process reference only; it is not proof of usefulness, causal effectiveness, safety, or transferability.
- No workflow software executed, no video playback independently observed, and no outcomes independently measured by this audit.
- Whether listed benefits hold in practice
- Escalation when approver is unavailable
- Assigning roles cannot create authority absent from the organization.
Source and dates
DACI Decision-Making Framework ↗ · Official facilitation procedure
- Published
- Unknown
- Updated
- Unknown
- Checked (UTC)
- 2026-10-18T03:01:00Z
Original DACI play reopened. No publication/update label established. Footer copyright 2025 is not a publication date.
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