Decision Deferral Buffet

What this snack represents

Premium parking-lot cuisine. For teams that achieve alignment on needing another meeting.

Plain English: Deferred decisions create follow-up cost, duplicated context, and slower delivery.

Formula: 90 min × attendees + 15 min follow-up × attendees

What this teaches: Decision Latency, Ownership.

Why teams underestimate it

The shelf label works because the cost is usually hidden across clarification, review, context switching, QA, and follow-up decisions. BarkBowl makes those ingredients visible before the work is treated as free.

Time formula

90 min × attendees + 15 min follow-up × attendees

Worked example

One serving of Decision Deferral Buffet is currently modeled at 15h 45m, or 15.75 person-hours. Multiply servings when the work repeats, spreads across more people, or needs another review cycle.

Warning label

Best before the decision mattered.

Evidence needed

Before committing this snack, collect an owner, a reason, a time formula, a rollback or no-op alternative, and a short explanation of what the receipt does and does not prove.

How to reduce the cost

Decision Memo Patties

No-op alternative

If evidence, authority, or capacity is missing, the mature move may be to record a no-op decision and revisit when the missing ingredient exists.

What this teaches

• Decision Latency
• Ownership

Related lesson

decision-latency

Related field report

decision-latency

Related glossary terms

Decision Latency, Ownership

Related blueprint

Decision record starter · Open Blueprint Gallery

Copy decision-record starter

Decision: Consider Decision Deferral BuffetTime formula: 90 min × attendees + 15 min follow-up × attendeesEvidence: [link or owner]
No-op alternative: [what happens if we do not act]
Boundary: This is a draft for human review, not an approval.
Reviewed at UTC: [timestamp]

Boundary note

This snack produces draft learning and time-burn evidence only; it does not approve fixes, validate credentials, train models, or certify safety.

Dogfooding notes

Exercises product snapshotting, time totals, TTL refresh, telemetry, learning translation, and checkout record creation.