🛑 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.

Original post by

Dave Anderson

from

Scarlet Ink

Tenure/Seniority