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Client discovery brief
Problem and workflow · Accountable owner and users · Evidence versus stakeholder claims.
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- Problem and workflow
- Accountable owner and users
- Evidence versus stakeholder claims
- Baseline or measurement plan
- Pilot scope and action boundaries
- Authoritative data and access
- Integration dependencies
- Acceptance criteria and review method
- Risks, owners, and decisions
- Milestones and handoff
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Architecture decision record
Decision ID, date, status, owner · Context and constraints · Alternatives, including a simpler baseline.
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- Decision ID, date, status, owner
- Context and constraints
- Alternatives, including a simpler baseline
- Selected option and rationale
- Evidence: dataset, versions, results
- Quality, safety, latency, and cost tradeoffs
- Identity, access, and operational implications
- Assumptions and residual risks
- Reconsideration triggers
- Links to tests and implementation
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Evaluation report
Task and success definition · Dataset version, provenance, and split · Case categories and denominators.
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- Task and success definition
- Dataset version, provenance, and split
- Case categories and denominators
- Application, prompt, model, and retrieval versions
- Scorers and human-review calibration
- Baseline and candidate results
- Critical access and approval checks
- Latency, load, and cost conditions
- Failure examples and limitations
- Release recommendation and owners
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Release and rollback checklist
Artifact and source revision · Dependency and configuration versions · Target environment and service identity.
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- Artifact and source revision
- Dependency and configuration versions
- Target environment and service identity
- Code, contract, integration, and evaluation results
- Permissions and negative tests
- Migration compatibility
- Smoke tests and expected outputs
- Rollout cohort and stop criteria
- Rollback steps and non-reversible effects
- Monitoring owner and resource cleanup
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Incident runbook
Service, environment, owner, escalation contact · Symptoms and user impact · Safe diagnostic commands and dashboards.
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- Service, environment, owner, escalation contact
- Symptoms and user impact
- Safe diagnostic commands and dashboards
- Containment: disable writes or affected path
- Evidence and timeline preservation
- Dependency, data, identity, and recent-change checks
- Recovery or rollback procedure
- Validation before declaring recovery
- Stakeholder update template
- Postmortem actions, owners, and due dates
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Portfolio case study
Project type: coursework, simulation, or employment · Problem, client context, and your actual role · Constraints and assumptions.
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- Project type: coursework, simulation, or employment
- Problem, client context, and your actual role
- Constraints and assumptions
- Architecture and alternatives
- Implementation and tested environment
- Results with evidence and sample limitations
- Failures and decisions they changed
- Security, operation, and handoff
- Demo and artifact links
- Next validation or improvement
Write for the decision
Use these templates as working documents, not paperwork to fill mechanically. Keep the main point visible, attach evidence, and make assumptions and decisions easy to find. A two-page brief that resolves ambiguity is more valuable than a long document that hides it.
Templates intentionally contain writing fields. They are learner worksheets, not unfinished course pages.