---
title: "Deployment Decision Record (DDR)"
description: "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…"
canonical: https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/deployment-decision-record-ddr
author: "Jorge García Aibar"
license: "CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)"
doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197
version: "0.5.0"
updated: 2026-09-24
---

# Deployment Decision Record (DDR)

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](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/governing-deployment#the-deployment-decision-record)
- Chapters: [ch. 15, Deployment](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/governing-deployment)
- In the glossary chapter: https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/glossary#t-deployment-decision-record-ddr

## Sources

Defined by this Body of Knowledge: the section it is developed in is the source.