Free tool Decision Altitude Review

Place the capability where it can create leverage.

Answer six questions about consumers, coordinated change, stability, blast radius, implementation independence, and ownership. The result is a starting point for an architecture review, not an automatic decision.

01ConsumersWho needs the capability?
02Change costWhat happens when consumers must coordinate a change?
03StabilityHow stable is the underlying need?
04Blast radiusHow widely can a failure propagate?
05IndependenceHow important is changing the implementation without consumer rewrites?
06OwnershipHow long must clear ownership survive?

Method Use the result as evidence

The score does not replace judgment.

A capability can be widely reused and still be too unstable to centralize. A local implementation can also create organization-wide cost. Review the strongest answer, the weakest assumption, and the cost of reversing the decision.

Discuss the boundary