At Work with The Ready

AUA: How Do You Balance Autonomy With Alignment In IT Teams?


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Every organization eventually hits the same wall: central teams aren’t responsive enough, federated teams reinvent everything, and the result is a messy tug-of-war between alignment and autonomy. IT organizations feel this pain especially acutely.


In this mini Ask Us Anything episode, Rodney Evans and Sam Spurlin unpack why centralized vs. decentralized is a false binary, why organizations swing endlessly between the two, and what it actually takes to design a federated model that works in the real world.


Got a work question like this one you'd like us to answer? Email us at [email protected]


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