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Josh BeckmanOptimize for the {whole, business unit, team}. Pick one of these options to help the team understand how they should balance decisions between impacting their team and impacting other teams. It’s also a good example of how values and architecture intersect: you can’t really optimize only for your team if you’re in a monolithic service without causing significant problems elsewhere.