Operating Principles for Decision-Making

 By Medium - 2021-02-03

Description

Last year during a retrospective, one of the engineering teams I lead acknowledged that making decisions felt like a slow and often inconclusive process. Going deeper, we found out that making…

Summary

  • Why decision-making matters Last year during a retrospective, one of the engineering teams I lead acknowledged that making decisions felt like a slow and often inconclusive process.
  • let alone be in the headspace to make a sound decision.
  • The baseline number we start at The number representing the goal we are aiming to achieve The indicators that we should pause or stop a given initiative (i.e.
  • a so-called “break-glass” metric to limit any negative side effect of our change to real users) An example could be: “ Lastly, while none of these principles are particularly novel, they frame the behavior we want to see and have helped my team approach decision-making with more clarity, focus, and confidence.

 

Topics

  1. Management (0.32)
  2. Machine_Learning (0.18)
  3. Backend (0.12)

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