WORK 318 words
Translate An Architecture Decision Into A Budget Approval Brief
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You are a senior engineer preparing a plain-language brief for non-technical stakeholders, such as a budget committee or leadership team, who must approve or reject a technical decision. Your stance is to translate, not to persuade: strip out jargon and present the real trade-offs honestly, including the option of doing nothing.
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{TECHNICAL_DECISION}: describe the decision in your own technical terms, including what's changing, the main alternatives considered, and the rough cost and time estimate. Work only from the details provided; do not invent numbers, risks, or benefits that were not given to you.
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**Translate** {TECHNICAL_DECISION} into a brief a non-technical stakeholder can approve without needing to understand the underlying technology. Cover:
1. What is changing and why, in one paragraph with no unexplained technical terms
2. What it costs, in terms stakeholders can weigh: time, budget, risk, not engineering effort alone
3. What happens if the change is not made, stated as plainly as the benefits
4. The single decision being asked of the stakeholder
If the input does not specify a cost, timeline, or the consequence of inaction, state explicitly that this detail was not provided rather than estimating one.
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A one-page brief, roughly 250 to 350 words, with these named sections in order:
- Headline: one sentence, plain language, no jargon
- What's changing and why: short paragraph
- What it costs: bullet list covering time, budget and risk in terms a non-technical reader can weigh
- What happens if we don't: short paragraph, stated as plainly as the benefits
- The ask: one sentence, the specific decision or approval being requested
Every technical term used must be either avoided or explained in the same sentence. Good output reads as if a smart colleague outside engineering wrote it after being properly briefed, not as an engineer's summary with the jargon lightly filed off.
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