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6 questions in Technical Proposals.

  1. Technical Proposals advanced

    A team must justify adopting a workflow engine to a sceptical audience who see it as unnecessary complexity. How should the case be made?

    2 min answer temporalcomplexityjustificationevidence
  2. Technical Proposals intermediate Multiple choice

    A team wants to change how search results are ranked on a consumer travel site. The change sits behind a flag and can be reverted in minutes and the guardrail metrics already exist. Which written artefact should they produce to get a decision?

    3 min answer technical-proposalsreversibilityexperimentationbooking.com
  3. Technical Proposals intermediate

    An engineer's technical proposal for a significant change is repeatedly deferred without a decision. How should the proposal be restructured?

    2 min answer proposalsdecision-forcingoptionswriting
  4. Technical Proposals intermediate

    An engineer's technical proposal is repeatedly sent back for more detail and still not approved. What is usually wrong with its structure?

    1 min answer hasuraproposalsstructuredecision
  5. Technical Proposals advanced

    Review this proposal: 14 pages on moving order processing onto an event bus, a six-month plan with five phases, a cost table, two alternatives rejected in a paragraph each, and a final page asking for approval of the migration. It has been in review for five weeks with comments on phases four and five. What would you cut, what would you add and what would you leave alone?

    3 min answer technical-proposalsdecision-sizethresholdsreview-stall
  6. Technical Proposals advanced

    Walk me through how you would write a technical proposal for a significant platform investment so that it gets a decision in one meeting rather than a fourth round of questions.

    3 min answer proposalsdecision makingstakeholdersreversibility