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Add lightweight retrospective/feedback loop pattern #6

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The framework covers the journey from problem to implementation-ready tickets (Discover → Design → Decide → Decompose), but there's no guidance for closing the feedback loop after implementation. Did the work achieve its goals? What did we learn?

Problem

Without a retrospective pattern:

  • We don't systematically capture whether decisions worked out
  • Learnings from implementation stay in people's heads
  • Future initiatives can't benefit from past outcomes
  • "Superseding" a decision happens reactively rather than through deliberate evaluation

Suggested Approach

Add a lightweight retrospective artifact or section that captures:

  • Outcome: Did the implementation achieve the initiative's goal?
  • Learnings: What surprised us? What would we do differently?
  • Decision validation: Were the trade-offs we accepted the right ones?
  • Follow-up: Any new initiatives spawned from this work?

This could be:

  1. A new artifact type (Retrospective.md) in the initiative folder
  2. A "Retrospective" section added to Decision.md after implementation
  3. A status update in the initiative's AGENTS.md

The key is keeping it lightweight – a few bullet points, not a formal post-mortem document. The goal is to close the loop, not add bureaucracy.

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