Authors:

1 Executive Summary

A short paragraph or bullet list that quickly explains what you're trying to do.

2 Motivation

What motivates this proposal and why is it important?

Here we aim to get comfortable articulating the value of our actions.

3 Proposed Implementation

This is the core of your proposal, and its purpose is to help you think through the problem because writing is thinking.

Consider:

4 Metrics & Dashboards

What are the main metrics we should be measuring? For example, when interacting with an external system, it might be the external system latency. When adding a new table, how fast would it fill up?

5 Drawbacks

Are there any reasons why we should not do this? Here we aim to evaluate risk and check ourselves.

6 Alternatives

What are other ways of achieving the same outcome?