The DecisionOps Guide
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The DecisionOps Guide
The operating practice for business decisions: from a messy situation to a committed, traceable Decision Record.
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.
