[neilv]

> The tl;dr on trade-offs is that everyone cuts corners, in every project. Immature engineers discover them in hindsight, disgusted. Mature engineers spell them out at the onset of a project, accept them and recognize them as part of good engineering.

And if you are that "mature" engineer, you need to remember and realize that many relatively junior engineers and non-engineer stakeholders won't always understand why you're saying X, Y, and Z.

So you'll have to figure out how to get sufficient shared understanding, or at least a lot of blind trust in your judgment.

[nevertoolate]

I like to introduce some form of ADRs (Architectural Decision Records) with some kind of decision making process based on consent decision making flow (stolen from Sociocracy)

Implementation details of the process changes from context to context but clear communication is needed in all workplaces, making the implicit explicit.