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The “Traffic Light” Approach to Problem Solving | by Naomi Gleit | Medium

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This is a guest post from my friend and Meta’s Chief Information Security Officer, Guy Rosen. All of us in work (and life!) must make and escalate decisions. But decisions usually have multiple options to consider with different tradeoffs. Enter Guy’s “traffic light” approach, which uses the colors red, yellow and green to visually represent and evaluate various options. Thank you, Guy, for teaching us this method, which has improved our decision-making process and continues to drive better outcomes. The “Traffic Light” Approach to Problem Solving By Guy Rosen Any time you want to proceed with a new product idea, figure out a strategy or decide on a feature, you’ll have a lot of questions to answer: Is it worth it? How will it affect people? Should we build it one way, or another way? Do we have the resources, or the time? Should we proceed at all? How well are the choices we made progressing? Should we shut it down? These questions need to be resolved. But they don’t exist in isolatio

Naomi Gleit 5 min read · Feb 4, 2023 -- 9 Listen Share The “Traffic Light” Approach to Problem Solving Press enter or click to view image in full size This is a guest post from my friend and Meta’s Chief Information Security Officer, Guy Rosen. All of us in work (and life!) must make and escalate decisions. But decisions usually have multiple options to consider with different tradeoffs. Enter Guy’s “traffic light” approach, which uses the colors red, yellow and green to visually represent and evaluate various options. Thank you, Guy, for teaching us this method, which has improved our decisio

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