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The InfoQ Podcast
Decentralizing Decision Making with Shawna Martell & Dan Fike
Jun 17, 2024
Shawna Martell & Dan Fike discuss decentralizing decision-making at Carta through the Navigators program. They highlight how this empowers contributors to make quicker, contextually relevant technical decisions. The importance of aligning decisions with organizational strategies is emphasized for continuous improvement.
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- Decentralizing decisions at Carta empowers individual contributors, improving technical decision quality and speed.
- Navigators bridge the gap between organizational principles and localized decision-making, streamlining processes at Carta.
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Navigators Program Overview
The Navigators program at Carta aims to streamline decision-making processes by empowering individual contributors through a strategic framework called Navigators. The need for this program arose as engineers at Carta lacked a clear engineering strategy, leading to confusion around decision criteria alignment with organizational principles. By introducing navigators, Carta sought to bridge the gap between overarching principles and localized decision-making within teams.
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