"In a #consensus decision-making process, the decision and the buy-in land at the same time. Rather than making a decision and then getting everyone on board, you get everyone on board, at which point the decision is clear."
by Mandy Brown: https://everythingchanges.us/blog/consenting-to-decisions/
"The time to optimize the quality of the #decision at hand is before it is made.
1) The name of the game is achieving outcomes that create bidirectional value for users and the business;
2) outcomes are achieved by making smart design decisions;
3) impactful design decisions are typically made well above the level of product teams;
4) real design work and having an impact are therefore inherently political in nature."
https://thelaterallens.substack.com/p/why-agile-is-losing-steam
"Many people in IT […] are bearers of ‘bad news’, they try to convince people of different paradigms, which are not yet welcome as the expectations are still based on poor ideas about what is assumed to work. Making their life worse is a constant stream of bad Enterprise/IT Architects–Strategists that — generally as consultants — bring welcome (but faulty) good news to the top."
https://ea.rna.nl/2021/07/31/dont-become-an-enterprise-it-architect/