Agile IT Organization Design: For Digital Transformation and Continuous Delivery
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (934 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0133903354 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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He was a founding member of the ThoughtWorks technology advisory board--the group that now authors the tech radar. Along the way, he has worn the hats of developer, open source contributor, manager, product owner, tester, SOA architect, trainer, and Agile coach. During a two-year stint at the products division of ThoughtWorks, he helped with product innovation and advocacy on Go, a t
It requires change across the organization and it encourages such change, to the betterment of the groups that practice it. This book addresses that problem and looks at CD from an organizational perspective. Sriram makes a compelling case for Agile design of IT organizations in large enterprises. He goes well beyond describing how an IT organization can adopt Agile development methodologies to explain how any successful digital transformation within a large enterprise must encompass strategy alignment, project portfolios,
Using real examples, Sriram helps you evaluate and improve organization designs to enhance autonomy, mastery, and purpose. Drawing on 15+ years working with leaders in telecommunications, finance, energy, retail, and beyond, he introduces a comprehensive agile approach to "Business-IT Effectiveness" that is as practical as it is valuable. Addressing people, process, and technology, he guides you in improving both the dynamic and static aspects of organization design, addressing team structure, accountability structures, organizational norms and culture, metrics, and more. Aspiring digital businesses need overall agility, not just development team agility. You'll learn how to eliminate the specific organizational silos that cause the most problems improve communication in organizations that claim to be (but aren't really) non-hierarchical optimize the way you build teams, design office space, and even choose tools. To gain the full benefits of agility in any software organization, you need to extend it beyond developers to the organization as a whole. Simply put, Agile IT Organization D
"A masterful treatment" according to Charles T. Betz. Deep. Wide. Credible. Current. All those adjectives apply. In this overview, Sriram Narayan has successfully integrated a wide variety of experience and principle into a comprehensive, Agile-informed discussion of organizational design, particularly in the context of IT delivery. Narayan first briefly covers the key principles of Agile, and then digs deep into core questions of organization design, line/staff issues, project vs. product management, functional silos vs. cross-functional teams, and many other topics currently troubling the IT indus. Clear, accessible and deep P. Hodgson Getting agile to really deliver on its promises requires more than sprinkling some Scrum(tm) trainers on your engineers. This book has the clearest and most applicable advice I've seen on what organizational shifts are needed to make agile really hum, and why.Very accessible and easy to read, but also full of some pretty deep hard-won wisdom on what works and what doesn't.I'll be recommending this to anyone who is looking to really leverage agile processes for their teams or organization.. Solid summary book. Sean G I'm not totally sure how to rate this book. He basically summarizes many different articles covered throughout the internet. That being said, he seems to be the first the first one to do it.It's a solid book an I agree with easily 75% of it. If you're in the industry you pretty much have to read it. It's NOT an agile transformation cook book.