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This is good point and definitely more doable when the company is already centralized.
by hnthrowaway0315 5y ago
This is good point and definitely more doable when the company is already centralized.
- ethbr0 5y agoIMHO, the "centralized team" + "decentralized liasons" model isn't explicitly used nearly as often as it should be. It usually happens in practice ("Sarah knows someone in security"), but there's no reason "devops liason" can't be an explicit 2nd+ hat for someone on a team to wear. Centralized teams are necessary for budgetary reasons: one person on every team asking for a devops product will never make a coherent case to management for why it's needed, but a team will. But having been on both sides of the equation, the central-decentralized relationship usually breaks down because there's always a new face on the right side of that equation, and that requires reteaching / recoordinating all the basics. More consistency on the user side (a hat) helps significantly. And ultimately, it's a trust problem: do I (central person) trust this person who's asking me for something? If they're new to me... probably not very much. If I've been working with them for awhile... probably a lot more.
- hnthrowaway0315 5y agoAgreed. And I don't really see a good solution for this. I guess we have to recognize that when companies grow and especially when structures are moved around, the original "agile" efficiency is not going to be there so we need to slow down in whole.