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HQ does the core design and starts detailed work in the engineering environment

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design/hq/decisions/hq-starts-engineering.sdp.md

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Intent
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Decide what HQ does itself and what it starts elsewhere.
Decision
context
The owner said on 30 October that HQ does the core design and initiates detailed design and implementation in the engineering fleet, and then gave the fuller reading: isolation means HQ can do long-term planning and high-level design, and when things settle, to reduce the noise and to have cross-project context, it actually initiates detailed planning and execution sessions in the engineering environment.
decision
HQ does long-term planning, high-level design and cross-project context. When a piece settles, HQ starts detailed planning and execution as sessions in the engineering environment, and does not do that work itself.
rationale
  • Hard to reverse: it fixes the altitude of every Spec here. Surprising without context: HQ is the owner's most capable context and still writes no code. A real trade-off: HQ loses the speed of working directly and keeps a context with little noise, which is the reason for isolating it.
alternatives
  • HQ delivers directly into repositories: that was the bootstrap, and it produced the noise the owner is reducing.
  • HQ writes detailed plans for sessions to follow: it would grow the briefs this design removes, and it would plan without the target repository's knowledge.
consequences
  • This corpus stays at HQ's altitude, and detailed design lands in the target repositories.
  • Delivery depends on the session handoff, so its seam comes early on the roadmap.
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  • spec:decisions.hq-starts-engineering: HQ does the core design and starts detailed work in the engineering environment · declared Spec
  • spec:hq.headquarters: HQ plans and designs across every project, and starts the engineering work · declared Spec
  • spec:decisions.hq-starts-engineering refines spec:hq.headquarters · declared — settles HQ's altitude and where detailed work happens
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Relations of spec:decisions.hq-starts-engineering
  • E2: decidedBy · declared — sets the altitude HQ works at and where detailed work happens
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  • spec:decisions.hq-starts-engineering: HQ does the core design and starts detailed work in the engineering environment
  • spec:hq.headquarters: HQ plans and designs across every project, and starts the engineering work
  • spec:hq.session-handoff: HQ hands a settled piece to a detailed session
  • spec:decisions.hq-starts-engineering refines spec:hq.headquarters · declared — settles HQ's altitude and where detailed work happens
  • spec:hq.headquarters decidedBy spec:decisions.hq-starts-engineering · declared — sets the altitude HQ works at and where detailed work happens
  • spec:hq.session-handoff decidedBy spec:decisions.hq-starts-engineering · declared — the ruling makes the session the only way detailed work leaves HQ
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Relation and directionOther endClaimReasonExercised keys
refines · outgoingHQ plans and designs across every project, and starts the engineering work
spec:hq.headquarters · resolves		declaredsettles HQ's altitude and where detailed work happensNone
decidedBy · incomingHQ plans and designs across every project, and starts the engineering work
spec:hq.headquarters · resolves		declaredsets the altitude HQ works at and where detailed work happensNone
decidedBy · incomingHQ hands a settled piece to a detailed session
spec:hq.session-handoff · resolves		declaredthe ruling makes the session the only way detailed work leaves HQNone

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