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Why Infra Re-Orgs Fail: Lessons/Tradeoffs Learned from Interviews

by ashiban on 12/4/23, 7:20 PM with 1 comments

• by ashiban on 12/4/23, 7:20 PM

  Hey friends! I recently published a blog post discussing common infrastructure reorganization models that companies adopt and why they often fail. After interviewing dozens of engineering leaders and infrastructure teams over the past two years, I've noticed companies tend to evolve their infrastructure orgs into a few canonical forms with distinct tradeoffs.

  The post covers:

  - 4 primary infrastructure org models

  - Reasons companies consolidate into centralized platform teams or decompose them

  - Tradeoffs, failure modes and pitfalls when reorg-ing infrastructure

  - A new approach porposal for leveraging cloud intelligence to empower developers

  Rather than continually rearranging org boundaries and responsibilities, I argue that we need to shift the focus to tools that bring the benefits of platform orgs into infrastructure orgs.

  Would love to hear what you think! What infrastructure org structures have you seen succeed or struggle?

  Read the full post here: https://www.alashiban.com/you-may-not-need-that-costly-time-...