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Stage 320 minutesPairs501 · Ways of working

Route the conversation

Map every conversation the slice requires to a channel, an owner and a cadence, and name the record each one lands in.

You will produce

Channel map

We will demonstrate

A conversation is not a decision until it lands in a record

Done when

Every decision in the map names the record that will hold it.

Supplied engagementMeridian Payments · Idempotent refund submissionheadless sliceStages 6 and 7 leave the fixture and use an engagement you run yourself.

Orient

Why this stage exists

A decision made in a call and never recorded is not a decision. Each conversation has a channel, an owner, a rhythm and a record it lands in.

There are exactly three systems of record. Anything that does not land in one of them did not happen.

Start from

What you start from

Work from these inputs only. Anything not on this list is either a later stage’s concern or a decision you do not own.

Gate register
Your completed gates from stage 2.
The cadence table
Section 04 of the operating process, 12 conversations in three clusters.
The engagement
A distributed client and pod with a 24-hour domain response commitment.
Demonstrate

A conversation is not a decision until it lands in a record

One worked pass, so the shape of the work is visible before you do it on your own.

  1. Sort the conversations this slice needs into live conversation, written record and decision.
  2. Give each an owner and a cadence, and name its destination record.
  3. Route the domain question about retry behavior that only payments operations can answer.
  4. Define the exception path and the response commitment that triggers it.

What this turns onThe stand-up is coordination only. It carries no decisions and no evidence, which is what keeps it short and what makes the records load-bearing.

Practice

Do the work

  1. Complete the channel map for the supplied slice.
  2. Write the escalation path for a domain question that breaches its 24-hour commitment.
  3. Identify which unanswered question becomes a logged assumption, and who owns it.
  4. Find the conversation in the supplied engagement that currently has no record.
Output

You produce

Artifact

Channel map

  • Conversation
  • Channel
  • Owner
  • Cadence
  • Record it lands in
  • Visible to
Pressure-test

Challenge your own result

The counterparty approves the scope on a call. Is the scope agreed?

Show how this resolves

Not yet. It is agreed when the spec owner records it against the Spec ID and the counterparty countersigns. Until then it is an intention, and intentions do not survive a disagreement six weeks later.

Gate

Ready to continue when

Readiness gate
  • Every decision in the map names the record that will hold it.
  • The exception path has an owner and a stated response time.

What transfersAudit any engagement by asking where its last three decisions are written down.

Source · 04 Operating cadence