Demo: facilitating a deadlocked design debate
On This Lesson 3 topics
This lesson is planned. The outline below lists the topics it will cover. The full lesson has not been published yet.
In this lesson
facilitate two senior engineers split on the stock-ledger design to a decision both commit to; prepares SRB-018-LAB1.
Draft outline details
Step by step
- Meet each engineer separately to hear their position and underlying concern.
- Open the joint session with the decision, the date, and criteria (correctness, operability, delivery date, reversibility).
- Ask each to restate the other's position until the other agrees it is fair.
- Planned mistake: offer your own preferred design to break the tie. Fix: return to the criteria and agree a short experiment or a named decider.
- Score options against criteria; turn the disputed claim into a test.
- Record the decision, the dissent, and the review date; confirm both commit.
Check your understanding
Why restate the other's position?
Show answer
It shows you understand it and often reveals shared ground.
Practice
Apply this lesson with the module's lab, exercises and quiz.
Marking a lesson complete is optional and you can undo it any time. Your progress stays in this browser.