Why decision records belong in analysis training

Technical analysis often ends with a recommendation and a quiet hope that someone remembers why. Six months later the hope has expired.

A decision record does not need ceremony: context, options considered, chosen path, and revisit triggers. One page is enough for most training cases.

We ask trainees to reconstruct a past decision from memory, then compare it to what the room actually recalled. The gaps are instructive.

When records become habit, reviews get shorter because the team is not re-arguing settled ground.