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To assess reversibility of architectural decisions, classify each commitment as cheap, expensive, or effectively irreversible, and flag mismatches between perceived and real reversal costs during plan reviews. Ensure ADR discipline captures context, alternatives, and consequences.

ADR discipline ensures architectural decisions capture context, alternatives, consequences, radar positions, and review triggers. It is needed for technical governance when committing to long-lived systems to preserve reasoning and document reversibility.

Audit an architecture plan by inventorying every significant decision, comparing implicit versus explicit choices, and highlighting missing ADR accountability where context, alternatives, or reversibility classifications are absent. This validates decision quality before rollout.

Yes, this approach works for infrastructure adoption plans. It validates that each decision includes a reversibility class, risk rationale, and ADR link before rollout, ensuring new infrastructure commitments are governed with intention and documented properly.

A limitation of classifying decisions by reversibility is that it requires complete plan documentation; if implicit choices or missing context exist in the ADR, the reversibility audit cannot accurately evaluate the true cost of reversing architectural commitments.