AUA: How Do You Balance Autonomy With Alignment In IT Teams?
Rodney Evans and Sam Spurlin unpack why centralized and decentralized structures both fail—and what a smarter “third way” looks like.
At Work with The Ready · Rodney Evans and Sam Spurlin
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Show Notes
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.
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