Principles

The Decision Pipeline is based on the following principles:

The Decision Pipeline is opinionated and prescriptive about a small number of things:

• Ensuring that decisions in progress are visible.

• Standardising how the progress of decisions is represented and updated.

• Naming and assigning responsibilities and expectations.

The Decision Pipeline is unopinionated and flexible about a larger number of things, including:

• How work on decisions is organised and progressed.

• How decisions are made.

• How proposals are presented to members.

At the same time, the Decision Pipeline provides a conceptual framework for understanding decision-making as it is currently practised and for changing those practices in the future. It does this by:

• Representing the activities that go into shaping, progressing and resolving a decision.

• Documenting a lack of standardisation, documentation or agreement where appropriate.

• Building in review and revision of the product, processes and activities.