Aligning Teams, Architecture, and Governance

Many enterprises are trying to create a more predictable flow, achieve ROI faster, improve quality, and be more responsive to the market. To this end, they attempt to transform to team-based agile, and then leverage scaled agile models to govern how requirements are defined, decomposed, coordinated, and tested. However, many of these efforts prove ineffective, and organizations fail to realize hoped for business benefits. In complex organizations, interdependencies between team design, architectural design, and governance contribute to this problem. Often misaligned because each is “owned” by a different part of the organization, their overall effectiveness is limited. Dennis Stevens shares an approach for creating a common view of the organization’s offerings. He shows how to use this view to align team design, architecture design, and the governance model with the strategy of the organization. Finally, Dennis shows how to leverage this aligned model to maximize the benefit to the business.