Decisions

A Decision is a formal open question that needs to be resolved. It might be a choice between two vendors, an approval to proceed with a scope change, a governance sign-off, or any other question where the outcome needs to be recorded.

Decisions in GreenVee are not meeting notes or informal to-dos. They are structured records that remain visible until they are resolved.

Fields

Field	What it means
Title	A clear, short statement of the decision to be made
Context	Background information — why is this decision needed? What are the options?
Due Date	When the decision needs to be made by
Assignee	The person responsible for the decision (optional). You can filter decisions by Assignee in Insights, though it is not currently set from the decision creation or edit dialog

Where Decisions live

A Decision belongs to one of three levels:

• Project — a decision that affects a single project (most common)
• Program — a decision that affects multiple related projects
• Portfolio — a strategic decision that affects the portfolio as a whole

This flexibility means you can escalate a decision from project to program level if it turns out to affect more than one project.

Decisions and State Reports

A State Report has a free-text Decisions field. When you author a State Report, you can note open decisions there in your own words, making them visible to stakeholders who read the report. This is a text summary, not a link to the Decision record — it’s one of the main ways open decisions get noticed and resolved even so.

See State Reports for how this works.

Decisions vs. actions

A Decision is a question that needs an answer. A Risk Action or Opportunity Action is a task that needs to be done. These are different things. If something needs a judgment call before it can be executed, log a Decision first. The action follows once the decision is made.

For Project Managers

Log open decisions early — before they become blockers. A decision sitting in someone’s inbox unlogged is invisible to the rest of the team. Once it is in GreenVee, it can be tracked to a due date and mentioned in your state reports.

A short title is best: “Choose ERP vendor for Phase 2” is clearer than “Decision needed regarding vendor selection process for the second phase of the enterprise resource planning implementation.”

Caution

Decisions are not auto-resolved. Someone needs to update or close the decision record once the outcome is known. An open decision with a past due date is a warning sign in any governance review.