A case for letting one trusted expert decide instead of committees. Pick someone with real domain knowledge, like a lawyer for legal calls or a product manager for features. Faster, clearer, and you know who to blame.
Chapters
Benevolent dictator is just a catchy term for the fact that when you're doing this open coding, a lot of teams get bogged down in having a committee do this. We want everybody on board, we want everybody involved. And for a lot of situations, that's wholly unnecessary. You need to cut through the noise. In a lot of organizations, if you look really deeply, you can appoint one person whose taste that you trust. So it would be the person who understands the business. It's always a domain expert. Like, for legal, it would be a law person. For mental health, it would be the mental health expert. Oftentimes it is the product manager.