Making decisions is part of working in software architecture.
But deciding about what?
The things you have declared architecturally relevant for the product/project.
And how do I determine that?
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One way is to ask yourself these questions:
• Is the decision hard to change later?
• Is it expensive to implement?
• Are there high quality requirements?
• Are the requirements difficult to integrate with existing systems?
• Is your experience with the solution set limited?
Did you answer yes to at least 1 of the 5 questions? Then this decision is relevant to the architecture of your product/project. You should be doing architecture work and making architecture decisions.
Sönke Schwenk