The DecisionOps Guide
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The DecisionOps Guide
The engineering discipline for turning Question Debt into defensible, immutable Decision Records. Fifteen chapters from Situation capture to the compounding decision graph.
Orientation
Decision decay, the reasoning layer, Situation-first entry, and Learning Nodes as decision infrastructure (workstation + Elen MCP + Lattice).
Reality of Decision-Making
How messy situations and pressure signals arrive first; Question Debt visibility via Progress Rail.
Mental Model
Decisions as first-class objects, Q-I-E triad, immutable Decision Records, supersedes edges, and Decision Graph.
DecisionOps Lifecycle
Seven-phase methodology mapped to ASK → DECIDE → ACTIVATE; Situation-first guided prompts, Progress Rail, frozen records.
Roles & Responsibilities
Decision Owner commitment role, step assignment, activity trail, Progress Rail; AI proposes, humans decide via Elen MCP.
Learning Nodes Artifacts
Situation → Question → immutable Decision Record; status aligned to product states, supersession for corrections.
Validation, Confidence, Epistemic Hygiene
DECIDE gates, human confidence, override rationale; non-competitive stance on BI and catalogs.
Decision Genealogy
Organizational learning via reference/supersede DAG; Decision Graph and Elen decision network surfaces.
Existing Tools
Non-competitive framing; LN stores decision context/records/evidence metadata, does not replace warehouse or BI.
AI-Assisted DecisionOps
Elen MCP for agent decision memory and Elen Lattice for live synthesis; manual-first, suggestion grounding tiers.
Anti-Patterns
How DecisionOps + Progress Rail + supersession eliminates drift, re-work, and silent contradiction.
In Practice
ASK/DECIDE/ACTIVATE timing for fast and complex decisions; pilot-era Progress Rail and activity trail.
Adoption and Maturity
Relief not compliance; Progress Rail completeness as early maturity signal; reuse/supersedes as roadmap.
Glossary
Situation, ASK/DECIDE/ACTIVATE, Decision Record (immutable), Decision Owner, Progress Rail, Elen, Lattice, Supersedes.
Appendix
Product-phase mapping to ASK/DECIDE/ACTIVATE, lifecycle examples, FAQ with open-core Elen boundaries.
