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Context, Decision, Consequences: The Three Required Sections

This generated surface maps a learner-facing curriculum unit to its canonical source routes.

Curriculum surface​

  • Open learner-facing unit
  • Curriculum path: content/curriculum/architecture/semester-07-architecture-ddd/module-05-architecture-decision-records-reviews/concepts/cluster-02-adr-mechanics/05-context-decision-consequences-three-required-sections-primary.md
  • App: architecture
  • Semester: semester-07-architecture-ddd
  • Module: module-05-architecture-decision-records-reviews
  • Unit kind: concept
  • Curation level: module_curated

Learning objectives​

  • Explain Context, Decision, Consequences: The Three Required Sections as part of an architecture feedback loop involving decisions, review, and long-term consequences.
  • Use Context, Decision, Consequences: The Three Required Sections to make architecture work inspectable: what was decided, why, what risks remain, and how success will be measured.
  • Use fundamentals-of-software-architecture to connect the learner explanation to ADRs, review methods, and architectural fitness functions.

Prerequisites​

  • Comfort with architecture tradeoffs, modular patterns, DDD boundaries, and API design decisions from the earlier semester modules.

Source books​

  • fundamentals-of-software-architecture

Source routes​

Fundamentals Of Software Architecture​

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External enrichment​

AI companion modes​

  • Explain simply
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  • Challenge my understanding
  • Diagnose my confusion
  • Connect forward / backward

Source-of-truth note​

This teaching unit is learner-facing guidance. Its canonical source backbone is the referenced book fundamentals-of-software-architecture, and outside material should only clarify or strengthen that backbone.