Planning in Bets: Risk Mitigation at Scale - Shopify

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This post details a high-level risk mitigation process applied to large-scale systems, focusing on identifying risks through 'what could go wrong' exercises, prioritizing mitigation efforts based on business importance, defining decision-making processes by empowering subject matter experts, and ensuring alignment and awareness through communication. It introduces the concept of making 'bets' based on the probability of outcomes to deal with uncertainty in engineering.