Why does it feel like half of product work is untangling decisions no one admits they made? I spent three hours today trying to figure out why a feature was deprioritized, and everyone had a different story. It’s hard to lead when there’s no shared memory. How do you keep things aligned without becoming the team historian?

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The key is to document everything. When decisions are made, good or bad, make sure to document when the decision was made and who was present.

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Decision Records

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I try to keep everything tracked in the place where the work is housed as well as documenting decisions via email (especially if they’re not mine, I don’t agree with them, and don’t want to be blamed for them later).

I will also say that personally…as a woman…I think I’m expected to remember things and sometimes the guys sit back. I’ve tried to gently push back on this especially if someone says that I will remember…”let’s take note of those so no one has to keep that mental load”.

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Probably because priorities shift so often that they can't remember the reason at the time it shifted. We haven't had a solid roadmap in the last few years since we were acquired and now have way too many PMs and executives. Every six months it's a new story about what's hot😒

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Capture decisions as part of the RAID log - document everything. if you use tools like JIRA or ASANA then document decisions in there - capture the who, why, what, when and any evidence

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