Keynote - Innovating at pace with simpler decision-making
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Monzo runs 200–250 deployments/day and serves over 9 million customers while using decision templates like RAPID and codified engineering principles to push judgment down. A mortgage view feature was built after 50 in‑depth interviews and generated about 10,000 pieces of feedback to triage. Cross‑team prioritization and a three‑month hackathon follow‑through produced call status, which shows when the bank is calling and already prevents thousands of impersonation fraud cases per year.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 1:25Talk expectations and Monzo's mission
- 4:56Monzo's growth and CTO priorities
- 7:03Coordination headwinds in scaling companies
- 9:52Empowering teams for faster decisions
- 14:30Clarity in decision-making processes
- 16:15Pushing decisions down the organization
- 18:22Principles over decisions for pace
- 19:50Avoiding local optimizations
- 22:20Disagreement as a tool for better decisions
- 24:28Example of rapid team decision-making
- 27:43Closing and call for shared insights
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