decision memo pack
Turn messy business options and evidence into structured, decision-ready memos with scorecards and action plans.
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decision memo pack
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decision_question: Should we migrate our monorepo to microservices?
audience: CTO and Engineering Leads
options: Stay monorepo; Extract 2 core services; Full microservice migration
criteria: Developer velocity, infra cost, complexity
context: 20 devs, deployment bottlenecks growing
evidence: Last month had 4 deploy failures due to merge conflicts.
deadline: Q3 planning session
risk_tolerance: balanced
- Read your context and instructions
- Compiled the decision memo
- Generated the document
I have drafted a decision memo regarding the potential migration from a monorepo to microservices based on your current deployment bottlenecks.
Decision memo: Monorepo vs. Microservices Migration
Decision question: Should we migrate our monorepo to microservices?
Audience: CTO and Engineering Leads
Decision deadline: Q3 planning session
Context / horizon: 20-person engineering team facing deployment bottlenecks; seeking balance between velocity and infra overhead.
Generated: 2023-10-27 · Draft for human verification — not advice
1. Decision at a glance
Recommendation: Extract 2 core services (Hybrid approach)
Confidence: medium
Why: A full migration introduces excessive infrastructure complexity for a 20-person team. Extracting the most congested services addresses the immediate deployment failures while limiting the operational tax.
2. Decision frame
- Success conditions: Reduced deployment lead time, zero failures due to cross-team merge conflicts.
- Constraints: Limited DevOps headcount to manage new infrastructure.
- Assumptions: Current deployment failures are primarily caused by tight coupling, not build tooling.
- What is in / out of scope: Infrastructure automation is in scope; rewriting frontend code is out of scope.
3. Options and scorecard
| Option | Fit to criteria | Upside | Trade-offs | Evidence / confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stay monorepo | Low | Zero infra cost increase | Continued bottlenecks | High / Deploy logs |
| Extract 2 services | High | Targeted relief | Incremental complexity | Medium / Team size |
| Full migration | Medium | Max autonomy | High infra overhead | Low / Tooling gaps |
4. Recommendation and decision gates
The hybrid approach (Option 2) allows us to isolate the domains causing 80% of the merge conflicts without over-engineering the entire stack. We should proceed if the pilot service extraction reduces build times by >30%.
Gates:
- Successful PoC of inter-service communication.
- Deployment failure rate remains below 1% for the new services.
5. Risks and dependencies
| Risk / dependency | Severity | Early warning | Mitigation / owner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Increased latency | medium | P99 monitoring spikes | Implement gRPC |
| Operational overhead | high | DevOps ticket backlog | Standardize CI/CD |
6. Action plan
| When | Action | Owner | Success check / gate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Now | Audit logs to pick top 2 service candidates | Lead Dev | Candidates identified |
| 7 days | Define service boundaries and API contracts | Architect | Documentation signed off |
| 30 days | Deploy first service to staging | DevOps | Green CI/CD pipeline |
| 90 days | Decommission original code in monorepo | Lead Dev | 0 calls to old path |
7. Open questions and source placeholders
- [VERIFY: Actual cost of AWS Managed Prometheus for service monitoring.]
- [SOURCE: Deployment failure logs from September — URL TBD]
8. Suggested next step
Schedule a 30-minute technical review to select the two specific services for the pilot extraction based on recent deployment conflict data.
Next steps
- Review the scorecard to ensure the weights for "infra cost" align with the Q3 budget.
- Replace the [SOURCE] placeholder with the link to your deployment logs.
- Assign owners to the initial 7-day action items.
decision-memo-pack.pdf
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About this skill
Business decisions often stall due to messy evidence and unclear trade-offs. This skill converts raw notes and conflicting options into a structured decision memo that helps stakeholders choose a path and begin execution.
What it does
- Frames decisions by clarifying success conditions, constraints, and underlying assumptions.
- Scores options using a comparative matrix that weighs pros, cons, and evidence confidence levels.
- Identifies risks by mapping potential failure points to specific early warning signs and mitigations.
- Generates action plans with structured 7, 30, and 90-day milestones to move from choice to implementation.
- Flags gaps by explicitly listing open questions and data points that require human verification or sourcing.
How it works
- Define the inputs by providing the decision question, intended audience, and at least two available options.
- Review the draft as the skill structures your evidence into a scorecard and recommendation.
- Verify placeholders by replacing bracketed source tags with actual data or internal documentation.
Frameworks & tools
This skill uses standard Markdown for document structure and is designed for use in environments like Claude Code, Cursor, or ChatGPT.
Why this beats prompting it yourself
Writing decision memos from scratch often leads to confirmation bias or missing risk factors. This skill enforces a consistent, objective evaluation framework that separates facts from inferences, ensuring you never skip the "do nothing" option or fail to define decision gates.
Use cases
- Build vs. Buy evaluations for new engineering tools or infrastructure.
- Product prioritisation memos for deciding which feature to pilot next quarter.
- Vendor selection reports comparing different service providers against cost and fit.
- Go/No-go assessments for market entry or new project launches.
Known limitations
Does not provide regulated advice for legal, medical, tax, or investment decisions. Requires a human to provide core evidence as it cannot access private internal metrics or live market data.
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