ES-114 Evidence¶
Purpose¶
This page defines the evidence expected from ES-114.
Stewardship evidence demonstrates what was learned from operation and how the system should be improved, governed, monitored, or evolved.
Required evidence¶
| Artifact | Evidence Purpose |
|---|---|
post_release_learning_overview.md |
Connects operations evidence to learning. |
operations_evidence_review.md |
Reviews quality and implications of operational evidence. |
lessons_learned.md |
Records lessons and actions. |
incident_and_defect_learning.md |
Extracts learning from incidents and defects. |
user_feedback_synthesis.md |
Synthesizes feedback themes. |
guardrail_and_ai_learning.md |
Reviews guardrail and AI-control learning. |
technical_debt_and_improvement_backlog.md |
Records debt and improvements. |
stewardship_plan.md |
Defines ongoing ownership and review. |
next_cycle_recommendations.md |
Recommends next engineering cycle actions. |
stewardship_summary.md |
Summarizes decisions and closure. |
Evidence quality expectations¶
Stewardship evidence should be grounded in operational evidence, explicit about lessons, explicit about improvement actions, explicit about ownership, explicit about routing to stages, honest about unresolved risk, clear about stewardship decisions, and useful to the next engineering cycle.
Stewardship quality test¶
Stewardship evidence is adequate when a reviewer can answer:
- What operational evidence was reviewed?
- What was learned?
- What changed?
- What needs to change?
- What risks remain?
- What debt exists?
- Who owns follow-up?
- Which stage should handle each improvement?
- Should the system continue, pause, stop, or proceed to another cycle?
- What is the stewardship decision?
Ownership evidence¶
Every important action should have an owner or an explicit decision that no owner is assigned because no action will be taken.
Unowned lessons become folklore. Owned lessons become engineering work.
Routing evidence¶
Each improvement item should identify where it belongs in the ETIS lifecycle.
Routing prevents the team from sending every issue directly to code.
Do not leave ownership blank. A lesson without an owner becomes folklore.
Evidence-centered learning is the difference between experience and improvement.