🛑 Stop making bad decisions
As engineers, our decisions shape the quality of our deliverables. Yet, our decision-making process can be flawed. In this comprehensive guide, uncover the three crucial levels of decision-making
Engineers are paid to solve problems
So we need to make decisions.
The quality of our decisions impacts the quality of our deliverables.
However, our decision-making process is often flawed.
Are you aware of how are you making decisions? You’ll find out reading
⭐ In this post, you’ll learn:
The 3 levels of decision making
Strategies to make high-quality decisions
3-levels of decision-making
🔎 Level 1 - Heuristics
Our brain is designed to save energy.
It will rely on proxies to make a decision.
Here are a few:
Whoever works on it first
Leave it up to personal preference
It’s vulnerable to all psychological biases affecting our brain. That’s why all good processes make use of a second pair of eyes.
Democracy
Majority wins.
Democracy helps to take a collective bad decision, not necessarily a good one.
Besides individual psychological biases, we add those impacting group decision-making.
