Business Decision Log Template
Business decision register with options, rationale, decider, consulted, status, supersession and review dates, follow-up actions
Cómo usar: Use it when a team needs one record of commercial, operational, people and policy decisions. Fill the status values and add a row as soon as each decision is made, naming who had the authority. The main pitfall is logging actions as decisions or deleting rows instead of superseding them.
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Decision Log: [Team, programme or organisation]
A running register of business decisions: what was decided, by whom, on what evidence, which options were rejected and when the decision will be reviewed. Use it for commercial, operational, people and policy decisions; record software architecture decisions in an architecture decision log instead. Replace every
[bracketed]value and every row marked Example.
Document control
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Log ID | [DL-TEAM] |
| Scope | [Team, programme or organisation] |
| Owner | [@owner] |
| Last updated | YYYY-MM-DD |
| Classification | [Internal / Confidential] |
The example rows use Saltmarsh Print Works, a fictional commercial printer.
Status values
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Proposed | Under discussion, not yet decided |
| Decided | Agreed by the person or body with authority |
| Superseded | Replaced by a later decision (give its ID) |
| Reversed | Withdrawn without replacement |
Decision register
| ID | Date | Decision | Options considered | Rationale and evidence | Decided by | Consulted | Status | Review date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DEC-001 | YYYY-MM-DD | [Decision] | [Options, including do nothing] | [Reason, link] | [@decider] | [@people] | [Status] | YYYY-MM-DD |
| DEC-001 (Example) | YYYY-MM-DD | Stop accepting print jobs under 50 copies from new customers | Keep, add minimum charge, stop | Short runs lost money in 9 of 12 months, finance review link | Managing director | Sales, production | Superseded by DEC-003 | YYYY-MM-DD |
| DEC-002 (Example) | YYYY-MM-DD | Move the night shift to four ten-hour nights | Keep five nights, four nights | Staff survey and overtime cost analysis | Operations director | Shift leads, HR | Decided | YYYY-MM-DD |
| DEC-003 (Example) | YYYY-MM-DD | Accept short runs again with a fixed set-up charge | Stop, minimum charge | Two key customers asked for short runs, pricing analysis | Managing director | Sales, finance | Decided | YYYY-MM-DD |
Follow-up actions
| Decision | Action | Owner | Due | Done |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [DEC-NNN] | [Action] | [@owner] | YYYY-MM-DD | [Yes / No] |
| DEC-003 (Example) | Publish the new set-up charge in the price list | [@sales-lead] | YYYY-MM-DD | No |
Related templates
- Architecture decision log for technical decisions
- Decision meeting brief to prepare a decision
- Meeting notes and RAID log for the meeting record and project risks
- RACI to agree who decides what
Standard and licence note
Based on common governance practice for recording decisions. No external standard is reproduced; the structure, status values and fictional Saltmarsh example are original. Template licence: MIT.
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