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Deployment Decision Record (DDR)

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The artefact that records the decision to deploy an AI system: objective, the people it acts on, negative space, risk tier and obligations, per-group performance floors, retirement conditions, owner and approver. It is committed with the system's code; its floors become eval-gate thresholds.

Developed in
ch. 15, The Deployment Decision Record
Chapters
ch. 15, Deployment
Source
Defined by this Body of Knowledge: the section it is developed in is the source

Where it is used

2 chapters of the Body of Knowledge use the term. Each link opens the first section that does.

Patterns that use this term

One pattern page uses the term.

  • Negative space

    The uses an AI system is explicitly not for, written into its Deployment Decision Record.

  • AI system

    For governance, the object the AI definition brings into scope.

  • Risk tier

    An organisation's own rating of an AI use case, computed at intake by a versioned policy from declared profile fields such as autonomy, decision impact…

Sources

No external source: the term is coined or used in a specific sense by this Body of Knowledge, and the section linked under "Developed in" is its source.

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Cite this term

García Aibar, J. (2026). Deployment Decision Record (DDR). In AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis & Body of Knowledge (v0.5.0), Glossary. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197. https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/deployment-decision-record-ddr. CC BY 4.0

BibTeX

@misc{aige2026deploymentdecisionrecordddr,
  author  = {Jorge García Aibar},
  title   = {{Deployment Decision Record (DDR)}},
  note    = {Glossary, AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis \& Body of Knowledge, version 0.5.0},
  year    = {2026},
  doi     = {10.5281/zenodo.22956197},
  url     = {https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/deployment-decision-record-ddr}
}