Download or read book Agile It Organization Design written by Sriram Narayan and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design Agile IT Organizations to Improve Teamwork, Accountability, Alignment, and Business Performance 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 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. Sriram 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 Choose financial practices that are free of harmful side effects Create and retain great teams despite today's "talent crunch" Break down tool-induced silos Reform metrics to promote (not prevent) agility Evolve culture through improvements to structure, practices, and leadership-and careful, deliberate interventions