People seem to forget what has been decided even a few weeks or days ago. So I decided to start capturing every decision.
After reading http://pm.stackexchange.com/questions/1430/how-should-a-project-manager-capture-decisions I came up with the following plan:
- Create a project log (I use Zim for note taking) for every project
- Capture every meeting, important mails or other events in the project log
- Put the date and the participants in the title
- Using bullet points and indentation (outliner style) to organize the content seems to work fine
- Mark every actions with [Action: Name] and every decision with [Decision]
- Below [Decision] note rationale and alternative solutions
- Some decisions are based on assumptions. If that's the case it must be stated below [Decision]