> To what extent should one allow suboptimal solutions, failure or allow employees to do things inefficiently with their “favorite tech stack” (in cases where i

> To what extent should one allow suboptimal solutions, failure or allow employees to do things inefficiently with their “favorite tech stack” (in cases where it does not add business value) ? All solutions should be put out on the table as business tradeoffs. "It will cost X; we will get Y; we might run into unexpected problem Z". We all need to agree that we want to choose the best solution for the company, we lay out the solutions naked and vulnerable, we pick them apart, and then we make a decision. If we still can't make a decision, we let someone take the sword - potentially making a bad decision in the process - because we agree that forward progress is more important than total consensus. Will we always pick the best solution? No, but hopefully we've come to agreement as to what the pros and cons of each solution. We likely had to make a decision on several shades of grey. Still, we should be held accountable for our decisions regardless of how difficult they were