Presentation: Hidden Decisions You Don’t Know You’re Making
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Explores invisible decision-making that shapes software architecture and team culture.
Summary
In a QCon presentation, Principal Engineers Dan Fike (Carta) and Shawna Martell (Imprint) expose how hidden decisions—such as defaults in CI/CD bottlenecks, platform complexity, and misaligned metrics—silently shape software architecture and engineering culture. They provide frameworks to uncover these meta-decisions, enabling leaders to incentivize high-performing teams with intentionality.