All core values
Trust
Traceability
Keeping a usable record of where information came from, how decisions were made, and what changed along the way.
Behaviors
- Links claims to their original sources
- Records decision owners and reasoning
- Preserves version history for consequential changes
Anti-patterns
- Numbers with no identifiable source
- Overwriting records without a change log
- Decisions that exist only in private messages
Reinforce it with
- Lightweight decision logs
- Source fields in reports
- Periodic checks of critical records
Traceability lets teams reconstruct a decision without reconstructing a rumor.