Decidly Blog
Better team decisions, made traceable.
Tactical writing on the DACI framework, decision-making discipline, and how high-output teams stop drowning in Slack threads. Written for product managers, engineering managers, and operators who actually have to ship the call.
DACI vs RACI: which to use, and when
RACI was designed for execution. DACI was designed for decisions. Most teams pick the wrong one and pay for it in 90-minute meetings. Here is how to tell them apart, and why DACI almost always wins for non-trivial calls.
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Decidly vs Notion: when to outgrow the database
Plenty of teams run their decisions in a Notion database, until the templates rot and nobody can find anything. Where Notion is enough, where it stops scaling, and how to know when it is time to switch.
Read articleHow to choose a Driver (and why it usually is not the manager)
The Driver is the most misunderstood role in DACI. Get it wrong and the decision stalls. Get it right and everything else falls into place.
Templates for decisions you'll still understand in 6 months
Most decision templates die in week three. Here are the four fields that keep them alive, and the five that you should delete on day one.
Async decision making for distributed teams
Synchronous meetings are a tax remote teams cannot afford to keep paying. A practical playbook for moving 80% of your decisions out of Zoom.
How many Approvers does a decision actually need?
Spoiler: one. Anything more is consensus theatre dressed up as governance. The real cost of multi-Approver decisions, and how to claw the time back.
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