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To align teams and strike this balance, the GDS uses what it calls “mission statements.” Mission statements give “broad direction and boundaries to a problem space” that each team owns. This information provides strategic direction, guidelines about the constraints teams must observe, and, at the same time, the autonomy for teams to find the best solution to the problem they’ve been given.
Sense and Respond
Jeff Gothelf, Josh Seiden
When someone says “Managers are decision makers,” they are not talking about master strategists, for a master strategist is a designer.
Good Strategy/Bad Strategy
Richard Rumelt
However, if it's the first time they have worked on this problem, then they will likely need some time to learn the space, start collecting some data to establish a baseline, and get a sense of what the possibilities are. In this case, encourage the team to jump in and not get stuck in paralysis by analysis, and acknowledge with them that they will learn much more as they progress, and that the confidence level will, of course, be low in this first quarter because they are still learning what they don't know.
Empowered
Marty Cagan and Chris Jones
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