As an organization grows, new stakeholders tack on additional processes to account for secondary concerns. When it comes to cross-team decision making, the decision maker is no longer anyone in the group but instead an executive with little context. As a result, I see "committees" being formed where the executive delegates the responsibility to a group of subject matter experts, who can advise and green light projects. This has been a huge bureaucratic bottleneck at the company, and reduces the accountability individuals have to make sure things get done or implemented.
What are some solutions you've seen implemented (at companies that have >250 engineers) to minimize the amount of "death by committee" decision-making an organization does?
