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AUA: How Do You Balance Autonomy With Alignment In IT Teams?

AUA: How Do You Balance Autonomy With Alignment In IT Teams?

Update: 2025-12-08
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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.




Got a work question like this one you'd like us to answer? Email us at podcast@theready.com




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AUA: How Do You Balance Autonomy With Alignment In IT Teams?

AUA: How Do You Balance Autonomy With Alignment In IT Teams?

Rodney Evans and Sam Spurlin