TrawpieDocs Guide Open Trawpie
Project management basics

Making decisions together

How to choose between options as a team, fairly and quickly, and keep the reasons for later.

Updated 11 Nov 2026 · 1 min read

Teams lose weeks to decisions that never quite get made. A short, fair method helps: agree what matters before you argue about the options.

  1. Write down the question“Which venue for the open day?”, not “venue stuff”.
  2. List the optionsTwo to five. More is usually a sign the question is too broad.
  3. Agree what matters, and how muchCost, quality, time, risk. Agree the weights first, before anyone scores.
  4. Score each optionSeparately if you can, then compare.
  5. Check how sure you areIf one weight changing by a little flips the answer, talk about that weight.
  6. Decide, and write down whySo in three months nobody has to ask.
A decision matrix: options across, what matters down, weighted scores at the bottom.

Trawpie’s decision matrix does all of this on the task the decision belongs to.

Example
Sam’s group can’t agree on a database. They agree “Live updates” matters most (30%), score three options, and Firestore leads by 12 points. Moving any weight by 10 doesn’t change it, so they decide in one meeting.