Broadly, these techniques are part of a methodology called Code Yellow, which is a cross-functional team created to tackle an issue critical to operational excellence. The term Code Yellow refers both to the team and the process that governs the team’s activities. This was a practice developed at Google to handle issues that were beyond the scope of what any one part of the organization owned. And unlike other processes at Google, it didn’t end up documented and commented on in a thousand different management books, so the only people who seem to know what a Code Yellow is or how to run one
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