Decision record
The written artifact documenting a recall decision: the finding, the contamination boundary, the severity assessment, the pattern assessment, the option chosen, the reasons the other options were rejected, and the review trigger. The first entry in an organization's incident log.
Defined in 4 GAGE programs, which carry 4 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in AI Data Governance: The Data Chair.
How each discipline defines it
The same term does different work depending on who is using it. These are the definitions as each program teaches them, unedited.
A written artifact, whether a filled-in weighted decision matrix, a short rationale paragraph, or both, that captures the options considered, the constraints weighed, and the reasoning behind a design decision, so the decision can be reviewed, defended, and revisited by someone other than the person who made it.
The written artifact documenting a recall decision: the finding, the contamination boundary, the severity assessment, the pattern assessment, the option chosen, the reasons the other options were rejected, and the review trigger. The first entry in an organization's incident log.
A short, dated, one-page artifact stating a real question, its owner, its stake and failure mode, its defending standard, the decision itself, and the sentence you would say to a skeptic. The first entry in the program dossier and the concrete output of this topic's lab.
The complete, documented artifact this topic teaches you to produce for any test result: metric and threshold with a date, actual result with rigor metadata, decision, signer and standing (if accepted), and re-evaluation trigger.
Where it is taught
The exact lessons this term appears in. The first 7 topics of every program are free with a free account.
- Pass, Fail, or Accept · Testing and Red-Teaming, Agentic AI Governance: Applied Mastery
- The wrong data fed the model: the recall decision for an AI system in production · Data Incidents, AI Data Governance: The Data Chair
- Why decisions, not information, will make you the expert · Taking Command, AI Governance: Applied Mastery
Terms it appears with
Not an alphabetical neighbourhood: these are the terms taught in the same lessons, ranked by how often they appear together.