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2707 questions of the kind that actually get asked — in interviews, in architecture review boards, and by the person who has to run the thing at 3 AM. Every answer states the trade-off rather than the slogan, and says when the obvious choice is the wrong one.

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4 questions in Deciding Under Uncertainty.

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A decision must be made now and the information needed will not be available for six months. What should the approach be?

A sponsor wants a date for a programme with several unknowns. Refusing to estimate is not an option. How do you handle it?

An architectural decision must be made with genuinely insufficient information and the cost of delay is real. How should it be approached?

An architecture decision must be made when the workload, scale and requirements are genuinely unknown. What approach works?