# | Claim (quoted or paraphrased) | Why it needs support | What to add |
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U-1 | “Senior engineers spend significant time in reactive architectural debates rather than proactive leadership.” | How significant? If Staff+ time currently averages 15 % in reviews and you want 5 %, the gap is small; if it is 60 %, governance alone won’t fix it. | Present sampled calendar or PR-review data, anonymized, to quantify the drag and set realistic improvement targets. |
U-2 | “Team autonomy vs. coordination tension … creates downstream problems that slow everyone down.” | This is plausible but vague: How much delay? Which metrics deteriorated? | Point to integration-defect trends, SLA slips, duplicated infra spend, or lead-time scatter-plots pre/post contentious decisions. |
U-3 | “Inconsistent technical standards create technical debt.” | True in principle but readers will want to know which standards matter most (observability? secrets management? container base images?) | Insert concrete examples (e.g., “four competing RPC frameworks add ~30 ms P90 latency on cross-service calls and duplicate client code in 12 repos”). |
U-4 | Success metric “improved engineering satisfaction scores.” | Improvement relative to what baseline, via which survey item, and by how much? | Define the current EngSat score and the target delta (e.g., +0.3 on a 5-point scale within 12 months), and list the specific survey questions tied to decision-making friction. |
U-5 | “Terms are 18 months to prevent entrenchment.” | 18 months feels arbitrary. Why not 12 or 24? Turnover can degrade continuity or lose domain context. | Cite precedent (e.g., CAP architecture councils), or at least explain the trade-off reasoning. |
U-6 | “Product teams have aggressive timelines that cannot accommodate lengthy approval processes.” | Without cycle-time data, critics may argue: “Great, but how long is lengthy?” | Include current median lead-time from ADR submission to decision, desired SLA, and how the new framework reduces it. |
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May 24, 2025 23:49
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