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“An organizational norm that says, “We value practice over theory but we value theory-informed practice over ad-hoc practice” helps to restore some respect for theory. We”
― Sriram Narayan, Agile IT Organization Design: For Digital Transformation and Continuous Delivery

“Collaboration across teams tends to be discontinuous and discrete (e.g., via meetings).”
― Sriram Narayan, Agile IT Organization Design: For Digital Transformation and Continuous Delivery

“Instead of a central finance function tracking if funds are utilized as per plan, we have outcome owners accountable for realizing value out of pre-approved funds tied to outcomes rather than plans.”
― Sriram Narayan, Agile IT Organization Design: For Digital Transformation and Continuous Delivery

“Good business outcomes are testable, valuable, independently achievable, and negotiable (TVIN). As”
― Sriram Narayan, Agile IT Organization Design: For Digital Transformation and Continuous Delivery

“Designing for second-order success from the beginning runs the risk of compromising first-order success.”
― Sriram Narayan, Agile IT Organization Design: For Digital Transformation and Continuous Delivery

“tools that blur boundaries between specialists are better than those that reinforce them.”
― Sriram Narayan, Agile IT Organization Design: For Digital Transformation and Continuous Delivery

“This book lays a lot of emphasis on having teams responsible for business outcomes (outcome-oriented teams) as opposed to being responsible for activities (activity-oriented teams). To”
― Sriram Narayan, Agile IT Organization Design: For Digital Transformation and Continuous Delivery

“Handoffs are mostly a result of specialization. Organization design cannot reduce these handoffs, but it can make them faster and cheaper by making them occur inside a single team.”
― Sriram Narayan, Agile IT Organization Design: For Digital Transformation and Continuous Delivery

“Thus, a mindset of responsiveness considers time efficiency from the customer’s or requestor’s point of view rather than cost-efficiency from the service provider’s point of view.”
― Sriram Narayan, Agile IT Organization Design: For Digital Transformation and Continuous Delivery