initial notes for tradeoffs

decision-making/tradeoffs.md

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+## 🔁 Tradeoffs
+
+### Tips:
+1. Learn to view most decisions as tradeoffs, not good versus bad.
+2. Visualize the tradeoff in a graph or diagram to make the decision easier.
+3. Revisit your tradeoffs once in a while. Once a year or every quarter maybe.
+4. Keep in mind that weighing tradeoffs doesn't mean halting the decision process. Sometimes, you need to make a decision quickly without it.
+
+### Tradeoff Framing
+
+*Format*:
+> X has these advantages, BUT has these disadvantages ... In the context Z, X is likely a good choice.
+
+1. Advantages
+2. Disadvantages
+3. Contexts where it is the right choice
+4. Uncertainties
+
+* Usually, advantages and disadvantages are in the realm of scope, cost and time. Examples:
+  - Long-term vs short-term benefits.
+  - Development effort vs User effort (some features are hard to make but benefit users)
+  - Quality vs story completion
+  - Rapid development vs maintainability
+
+
+
+**References**:  
+- https://www.nemil.com/on-software-engineering/think-in-tradeoffs.html