Practical Applications of System Design

Overview

There are two core benefits as your technical knowledge around system design grows:

1. Enhanced partnerships: Your ability to partner with cross-functional teams effectively will exponentially increase as you plan and manage risks with them.

2. Driving trade-off decisions: when design problems arise, you will be well-equipped to facilitate technical and challenging trade-off decisions.

Enhanced partnerships

Your knowledge of system design principles will amplify your ability to partner effectively with engineering and product managers. By understanding the technical requirements and constraints of a system, you can:

• Work with engineering managers and software engineers to ensure that the system is designed in a way that considers the many system design principles we previously covered.

• Work with product managers and designers to ensure that the system is designed to meet the business and user requirements.

• Work with legal or security to ensure the solution is designed to consider nuanced details around user safety and consent.

• Work with many other domain experts where their contributions are necessary to create a viable solution.

Planning and risk management

There are two primary areas ...