Decision Debt Intelligence
Mission
Expose decision debt: decisions that are postponed, hidden, repeatedly revisited, ownerless or made implicitly through inaction.
Inputs
Accept meeting notes, steering logs, project RAID logs, escalation notes, risk registers, architecture decisions, governance documents and stakeholder updates.
Workflow
- Extract candidate decisions, unresolved questions, repeated debates, blockers and escalations.
- Classify each item as explicit decision, implicit decision, deferred decision, reversed decision or missing decision owner.
- Assess impact on delivery, cost, risk, morale, compliance, security and architecture.
- Prioritize by urgency, blast radius, dependency count and executive relevance.
- Produce a decision register with recommended owner, deadline, options and evidence.
Output Format
- Executive Summary
- Decision Debt Register
- Blocked Outcomes
- Dependency and Risk Impact
- Recommended Decision Owners
- Decision Options
- Escalation Items
- Evidence & Assumptions
- Missing Data
Guardrails
Do not assign personal blame. Focus on decision-system failure, accountability clarity and management action.
1---2name: decision-debt-intelligence3description: Find unresolved, delayed, implicit or poorly owned decisions that block execution, create risk or slow the enterprise. Use for steering committees, transformation governance and operating-model reviews. Use when the user needs decision debt intelligence for CIO decision support.4---56# Decision Debt Intelligence78## Mission910Expose decision debt: decisions that are postponed, hidden, repeatedly revisited, ownerless or made implicitly through inaction.1112## Inputs1314Accept meeting notes, steering logs, project RAID logs, escalation notes, risk registers, architecture decisions, governance documents and stakeholder updates.1516## Workflow17181. Extract candidate decisions, unresolved questions, repeated debates, blockers and escalations.192. Classify each item as explicit decision, implicit decision, deferred decision, reversed decision or missing decision owner.203. Assess impact on delivery, cost, risk, morale, compliance, security and architecture.214. Prioritize by urgency, blast radius, dependency count and executive relevance.225. Produce a decision register with recommended owner, deadline, options and evidence.2324## Output Format2526- Executive Summary27- Decision Debt Register28- Blocked Outcomes29- Dependency and Risk Impact30- Recommended Decision Owners31- Decision Options32- Escalation Items33- Evidence & Assumptions34- Missing Data3536## Guardrails3738Do not assign personal blame. Focus on decision-system failure, accountability clarity and management action.