Empowering Teams: Decentralizing Architectural Decision-Making
In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, centralized architectural decision-making can become a bottleneck to delivery performance and innovation.
Through stories from our own journey, we’ll share how decentralizing decisions improved alignment across teams, empowered faster decision-making, and fostered a culture of ownership.
Physarum polycephalum, commonly known as slime mold, offers an unexpected lesson for software architects, because it can create a complex and efficient network independently and without a central decision-maker.
Scientists uncovered the remarkable decision-making ability of this single-celled organism by placing food sources in positions corresponding to cities around Tokyo and observing how the slime mold responded.
The slime molds spread out, detecting locally for nutrients and repellents, making local decisions about which direction to go in search of food.
Author summary: Decentralizing architectural decision-making improves team performance.
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