1. Record
Capture change, actor, owner, evidence, outcome, and reviewer rationale.
Adopt
Start with a record, not a platform rewrite.
PED adoption works best when teams make existing decisions observable first, then automate the repeated parts.
2. Name
Classify each decision by ownership, conformance, reversibility, blast radius, and evidence.
3. Encode
Automate one repeated deterministic question before touching harder policy.
4. Escalate
Send ambiguous cases to reviewers with the passing, failing, and missing controls already visible.
5. Measure
Track latency, intervention rate, exceptions, and outcome changes.
6. Repeat
Turn recurring review rationale into the next deterministic control.
First month
A practical 30-day path.
- Week 1: choose one workflow and collect decision records.
- Week 2: validate required fields and publish records as artifacts.
- Week 3: automate one deterministic control.
- Week 4: review repeated rationales and pick the next control.