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Goals of an internal RFC
We needed a way to make decisions as a team that would allow us to:
- enable individual contributors to make decisions for systems they’re responsible for
- allow domain experts to have input in decisions when they’re not directly involved in building a particular system
- manage the risk of decisions made
- include team members without it becoming design by committee
- have a snapshot of context for the future
- be asynchronous
- work on multiple projects in parallel
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The newbie tag enables psychological safety
As a team, we agreed that any comment or proposal tagged with [newbie] indicated that its author was coming from a vulnerable place. Whether motivated by lack of expertise, context or confidence, this tag allowed for us to make mistakes while knowing we were in an environment of ...
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Making decisions in a bubble = 🤬
In the process of building our apps I received a private Slack message:
Why was the data dashboard built using React if our front-end stack is based on Ember? — a not very happy front-end engineer
- 💀 I didn’t know we had added a new tool to our stack. 😳
- 💀 Othe...
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Deciding when to RFC is difficult
You should write an RFC if you:
- are building something from scratch. New endpoint, component, system, library, application, etc.
- the need rewrite has crossed your mind
- will impact more than one system or other team members.
- would like to define a contract or int...
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Trust issues become more evident
We’ve found RFCs increase visibility into who is making decisions in a system and has helped managers identify situations where trust issues are preventing ICs from making decisions.
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Participation in RFCs
If you see a low participation rate, you team members may be dealing with the following challenges:
- 😵 They have too much going on.
- 😱 They are not interested.
- 🔨 Tools used for process management are not providing them great UX.
- 🕰 They may need better personal...
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