Architecture & practice·Making and recording decisions
the third team this year proposed the same database and nobody could say whether it was already rejected.
Technology radar
Also calledtech radar, adopt trial assess hold
A maintained list of technologies the organisation is adopting, trialling, assessing or holding, with reasons. It exists to stop the same evaluation being run repeatedly by different teams and to make 'no' a documented position rather than a senior engineer's mood. It rots quickly without an owner, and a rotten radar is worse than none because people cite it.