At Carta, we recently ran a reading group forFacilitating Software Architectureby Andrew Harmel-Law.We already loosely followed the ideas of anarchitectural advice process (from this 2021 articleby the same Andrew Harmel-Law), but in practice we found that internal tech spec and architecture decision record (ADR) authors tended toexclusively share their documents locally within their team rather than more widely.

As we asked authors why they preferred sharing locally, the most common answe...