Navigators
summary
Claims a written engineering strategy plus empowered ICs actually speeds decisions and improves alignment. Carta wrote an explicit engineering strategy and designates about a dozen Navigators—senior ICs, not managers—who carry strategy into teams, hold authority tied to the CTO, and escalate when needed. Outcomes include stopping a premature one-size-fits-all platform, unblocking SRE and data team disagreements, and running a second Navigator cohort after a year, all presented as measurable increases in velocity and fewer re‑litigated decisions.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:07Navigators program at Carta
- 5:57Engineering strategy need
- 8:47Effective strategy structure
- 11:10Decentralizing decisions
- 13:59Navigator roles
- 16:24Strategy interpreters
- 17:48Navigators benefits
- 20:35Implementing Navigators
- 23:05Summary
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