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title: 'After launch: change a product and keep its decisions'
description: 'Trace which requirements, decisions and contracts a change affects before implementation starts, so each request builds on accepted behavior, not chat memory.'
url: 'https://flagridge.com/solutions/by-stage/after-launch'
type: 'audience'
template: 'situation'
language: 'en'
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# Change the product without reopening every old decision.

> When feedback, bugs, and requests outrun team memory, make each change show what it affects before implementation begins.

Primary action: [See how change stays traceable](https://flagridge.com/docs/guide/handoffs)

## The week every request starts discovery again

You own the product after launch. A customer request looks small until someone asks which rule, decision, integration contract, and accepted behavior it will disturb.

## Why chat memory breaks after launch

The original answer may exist in a session, a meeting, or one person's head. A new agent can generate a patch, but it cannot prove that the patch keeps the old decision intact.

## Trace the impact before changing code

Treat a bug report, new feature and change to accepted scope according to their different questions. Capture the original request, inspect the requirements, business rules and design it may affect, then propose a bounded update for review. Links help people locate what to revisit; they do not rewrite every dependent artifact automatically.

## A change package with a history

- **Original request** — preserve the ask or defect before interpretation.
- **Affected scope** — name the stories, rules and technical decisions to review.
- **Bounded change** — implement only after the revised acceptance and design are understood.
- **Evidence** — record what was checked, failed or skipped for the selected operation.

## What the next change can inspect

The next owner starts from the versioned change and its evidence, not from another round of archaeological prompting.

## Make one change traceable

Use the handoff guide on the next request that would otherwise reopen a decision.

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