Agile IT Organization Design (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Pearson Education (US), Boston, 2015
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Paperback. Aspiring digital businesses need overall IT agility, not just development team agility. In Agile IT Organization Design, IT management consultant and ThoughtWorks veteran Sriram Narayan shows how to infuse agility throughout your organisation. Drawing on more than fifteen years experience working with enterprise clients in IT-intensive industries, he introduces an agile approach to BusinessIT Effectiveness that is as practical as it is valuable. The author shows how structural, political, operational, and cultural facets of organisation design influence overall IT agilityand how you can promote better collaboration across diverse functions, from sales and marketing to product development, and engineering to IT operations. Through real examples, he helps you evaluate and improve organisation designs that enhance autonomy, mastery, and purpose: the key ingredients for a highly motivated workforce. Youll find close range coverage of team design, accountability, alignment, project finance, tooling, metrics, organisational norms, communication, and culture. For each, youll gain a deeper understanding of where your organisation stands, and clear direction for making improvements. Ready to optimise the performance of your IT organisation or digital business? Here are practical solutions for the long term, and for right now. Govern for value over predictability Organise for responsiveness, not lowest cost Clarify accountability for outcomes and for decisions along the way Strengthen the alignment of autonomous teams Move beyond project teams to capability teams Break down tool-induced silos Choose financial practices that are free of harmful side effects Create and retain great teams despite todays talent crunch Reform metrics to promote (not prevent) agility Evolve culture through improvements to structure, practices, and leadershipand careful, deliberate interventions This book teaches students how to build an organizational framework based on agile principles for better team design, communications design, clear lines of accountability and a set of valued organizational norms for good organization design to create a healthy environment for Business-IT effectiveness and agility in small, medium, and large software companies. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …
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- Title
- Agile IT Organization Design (Paperback)
- Author
- Sriram Narayan
- Publisher
- Pearson Education (US), Boston
- Publication year
- 2015
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0133903354
- ISBN 13
- 9780133903355
Design IT Organizations for Agility at Scale
Aspiring digital businesses need overall IT agility, not just development team agility. In Agile IT Organization Design, IT management consultant and ThoughtWorks veteran Sriram Narayan shows how to infuse agility throughout your organization. Drawing on more than fifteen years’ experience working with enterprise clients in IT-intensive industries, he introduces an agile approach to “Business–IT Effectiveness” that is as practical as it is valuable.
The author shows how structural, political, operational, and cultural facets of organization design influence overall IT agility―and how you can promote better collaboration across diverse functions, from sales and marketing to product development, and engineering to IT operations. Through real examples, he helps you evaluate and improve organization designs that enhance autonomy, mastery, and purpose: the key ingredients for a highly motivated workforce.
You’ll find “close range” coverage of team design, accountability, alignment, project finance, tooling, metrics, organizational norms, communication, and culture. For each, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of where your organization stands, and clear direction for making improvements. Ready to optimize the performance of your IT organization or digital business? Here are practical solutions for the long term, and for right now.
- Govern for value over predictability
- Organize for responsiveness, not lowest cost
- Clarify accountability for outcomes and for decisions along the way
- Strengthen the alignment of autonomous teams
- Move beyond project teams to capability teams
- Break down tool-induced silos
- Choose financial practices that are free of harmful side effects
- Create and retain great teams despite today’s “talent crunch”
- Reform metrics to promote (not prevent) agility
- Evolve culture through improvements to structure, practices, and leadership―and careful, deliberate interventions
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About the Author
Sriram Narayan, an IT management consultant with ThoughtWorks, has provided IT agility guidance to clients in telecom, financial services, energy, retail, and Internet businesses. He has also served as a leadership coach and a director of innovation. He was a founding member of the ThoughtWorks technology advisory board–the group that now authors Technology Radar. During a two-year stint at the products division of ThoughtWorks, he helped with product innovation and advocacy on Go–a tool that helps with continuous delivery. He has also worn the hats of a developer, open-source contributor, manager, product owner, tester, SOA architect, trainer, and Agile coach. An occasional blogger and speaker at conferences, his writings, talks, and contact information are available from sriramnarayan.com. The opinions in this book are his own.
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