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I’m seeing that traceability is an issue of scale and context. For me transparency is being able to understand why a decision was made while traceability is being able to trace the whole path of the decision making/implementation process for each thing. I think a good example might be why X was chosen over Y. It’s not so important that people can see the conversation where X was chosen. It’s important that people know why X is a good idea. Y might also be a good idea, but does understanding why it wasn’t chosen matter as much as understanding that X is a good thing and it’s working?
What I’m reading also talks about using conversation instead of documentation. I think in this example they would want people to just have a conversation about why X was chosen over Y instead of creating extra documentation for people to try and trace the answer themselves. Most of the time, that conversation is unlikely to happen, so why create the documentation just in case?