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Decisions

Every team makes calls it later has to explain: why did we drop that story, why did we choose this approach? Decisions turns any task note into a durable record of that call, and collects those records into a project- and sprint-scoped log — so the answer is one click away at a Sprint Review instead of buried in a chat thread.

A note is the per-author why/decision log on a task (see task collaboration). Marking a note as a Decision is a single tap — a chip next to Pin on the note row. Any team member or project manager can flag a note; flagging is curation, not authorship, so you can mark a teammate’s note as a decision too. The flag is the only structured marker — there is no taxonomy, no required fields, nothing else to fill in.

Flagged decisions roll up into the Decisions view under Reports → Decisions:

  • All decisions — every decision across the project, grouped by sprint, with closed sprints kept browsable so you can revisit a call made three sprints ago.
  • Current sprint — the same log scoped to the active sprint, for walking decisions at the Sprint Review or Retro.

Each row shows the decision text, who recorded it, when, and a link back to the task. A decision toggled by a teammate appears in an open Decisions view in real time.

Decisions are team-owned. By default the log is visible to the team and to project managers — not to read-only oversight stakeholders. A project admin can extend visibility with a single Oversight visibility switch on the Decisions view; until they do, an oversight viewer sees an explanatory message rather than the log. The team controls whether its decisions are shared upward — the switch is enforced on the server, not just hidden in the UI.

This is single-project, team-level consent. Rolling decisions up across projects for a portfolio view is part of the enterprise edition.

  • Marking a note as a decision never sends a notification — it is a quiet, low-friction act.
  • A note’s body is immutable after a short edit window, so a recorded decision can’t be silently rewritten after the fact.
  • Decisions are project- and sprint-scoped only. There is no separate decision lifecycle (accepted/superseded) or immutable audit trail in the community edition.