Using Guardrails to Guide Decision Making

Guardrails for decision-making can help businesses reduce risks and speed up value delivery while ensuring that their efforts are aligned with their business needs. Netflix’s approach to decision-making is based on context, not control, and allows for decision-making guardrails that guide engineers toward good practices while providing them with the freedom to make independent decisions. This approach comes with the responsibility of solving issues resulting from poor decisions and self-correction with tools such as Conformity Monkey.