magnus919_agent-skills/product-operations-and-governance/templates/decision-rights-map.md

Decision-Rights Map

Fill one map per product or portfolio. For every decision type, name the accountable owner (a specific role, not a department), who must be consulted before the decision, who must be informed after, the minimum evidence required, and the escalation path when the decision cannot be resolved at this level.

Context

• Product / portfolio: [fill]
• Operating mode: [fill: lightweight / high-assurance]
• Date: [fill]

Map

Intake / Opportunity — Accept, Reject, or Defer

• Accountable owner: [fill: role — e.g., "Product Lead, Payments"]
• Consulted: [fill: roles or individuals]
• Informed: [fill: roles or individuals]
• Minimum evidence:
  • Lightweight: [fill: e.g., "Problem statement + one qualitative or quantitative signal"]
  • High-assurance: [fill: e.g., "Problem statement, cost of delay, strategic alignment score, capacity check"]
• Escalation path: [fill: who resolves if contested or undecidable]

Portfolio Prioritization — Sequence and Allocate

• Accountable owner: [fill]
• Consulted: [fill]
• Informed: [fill]
• Minimum evidence:
  • Lightweight: [fill: e.g., "Relative rank with rationale"]
  • High-assurance: [fill: e.g., "Cost of delay, strategic alignment score, capacity model, risk assessment per bet"]
• Escalation path: [fill]

Roadmap Commitment — Commit, Adjust, or Defer

• Accountable owner: [fill]
• Consulted: [fill]
• Informed: [fill]
• Minimum evidence:
  • Lightweight: [fill: e.g., "Hypothesis + success criteria"]
  • High-assurance: [fill: e.g., "Hypothesis, experiment results or market evidence, dependency map, confidence interval"]
• Escalation path: [fill]

Experiment Review — Proceed, Stop, or Iterate

• Accountable owner: [fill]
• Consulted: [fill]
• Informed: [fill]
• Minimum evidence:
  • Lightweight: [fill: e.g., "Guardrail check + qualitative signal"]
  • High-assurance: [fill: e.g., "Statistical analysis, guardrail verification, ethics review, decision rule applied"]
• Escalation path: [fill]

Launch Review — Go, No-Go, or Defer

• Accountable owner: [fill]
• Consulted: [fill]
• Informed: [fill]
• Minimum evidence:
  • Lightweight: [fill: e.g., "Readiness checklist + stakeholder sign-off"]
  • High-assurance: [fill: e.g., "Full readiness evidence packet, risk acceptance sign-off, rollback plan verified"]
• Escalation path: [fill]

Lifecycle / Health Review — Continue, Invest, Harvest, or Retire

• Accountable owner: [fill]
• Consulted: [fill]
• Informed: [fill]
• Minimum evidence:
  • Lightweight: [fill: e.g., "Usage + outcome data, team recommendation"]
  • High-assurance: [fill: e.g., "Usage, financial, competitive, and risk data; multi-stakeholder review"]
• Escalation path: [fill]

Additional Decision Types

Add rows for any product-specific decision types not covered above.

[fill: additional decision types with the same five fields]

Evidence Classification Key

All evidence in this map follows the four-category classification:

• Observed — measured, verified, reproducible data.
• Inferred — conclusion from observed data with stated assumptions and confidence.
• Asserted — stakeholder claim not yet verified; treated as an assumption.
• Committed — a decision with consequences for reversal; recorded with accountable owner and revisit trigger.