Decentralized decision-making can reduce an organization's reliance on consensus and expedite decisions.
A written engineering strategy gives an organization a clear set of shared principles to inform and direct decision-making.
Empowering a dedicated set of senior individual contributors as interpreters of the engineering strategy within their teams enables more autonomous decisions.
Accountability for autonomous decisions is vital, so Navigators answer to the CTO for their decisions.
Navigators partner with engineering management, providing complementary perspectives to guide their teams.