How to make architecture decisions
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How to make architecture decisions
a system for them to sort decisions into three boxes: 1. decisions they could make without any input from me, 2. decisions they could make after sharing their reasoning with me so I could double-check their judgment, and 3. decisions I wanted to make myself.
Shane Parrish • Clear Thinking
The philosophy is that you push the power of decision making out to the periphery and away from the center. You give people the room to adapt, based on their experience and expertise. All you ask is that they talk to one another and take responsibility. That is what works.
Atul Gawande • The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right
Software System Design Decision Tree
Löwy Juval • Righting Software
The dilemma is a cruel one. For efficiency and conceptual integrity, one prefers a few good minds doing design and construction. Yet for large systems one wants a way to bring considerable manpower to bear, so that the product can make a timely appearance. How can these two needs be reconciled? Mills's Proposal A proposal by Harlan Mills offers a f
... See moreFrederick P. Brooks Jr. • Mythical Man-Month, Anniversary Edition, The: Essays On Software Engineering
The reality is that product managers, designers, engineers, and other stakeholders need to collaborate to optimize myriad constraints originating from their respective disciplines to derive the best solution– however they define “best” to be.