ADRs as a Team Habit: The Fastest Path to Better Engineering Decisions

Lead engineers do not lose time because teams move slowly. They lose time because teams revisit the same decision three times across six months, with no shared memory of why the previous choice was made. Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) solve that problem. And if the process is lightweight enough, teams actually use them. This article shows: why ADRs are a leverage point for engineering leaders, how to remove the friction that kills adoption, and how to bootstrap the practice with create-adr