Move Fast and Decide Things
summary
Greenlight moves from 30 to 300 engineers and over 30 microservices by adopting a decision-log and technical-spec framework, launched November 2020, that uses Confluence templates as the system of record and enforces lazy consensus (post to all-engineering, wait ~72 hours). The concrete result: fewer status meetings, clearer ownership, and an audit trail of point-in-time decisions; unresolved problems include poor searchability, spotty ongoing training, and no single team owning the process.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction and setup
- 1:54Why we started this
- 5:27Decision logs and tech specs
- 17:54How we implemented it
- 22:10What worked and what didn’t
- 24:59Q&A session
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