As a Salesforce consultant, you’ll make tons of project decisions.
Some of these decisions are easy to follow-through and complete. No one really questions the choice, and the result is a smashing success.
Other times, the decision is not optimal and course-correction is needed.
Hopefully, as you’re going along, you’re logging the reasons why you made decisions. This can be really helpful to refer to when you need to change course.
However I’m willing to bet most of you don’t document options you’ve considered and discarded.
Tracking the paths that were not followed and why not is just as important and the paths you did pursue. This is especially true if you need to rollback to a decision made months or years ago.
The takeaway
As you’re making decision, keep a log of the reason why a decision was made. Also log choices that were not considered, and why.
You’ll thank me one day.