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You May Not Need That Costly, Time-Consuming Infra Re-Org - Ala Shiban

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(I’d like to thank Jordyn Bonds, Nick Tittley and Brian Bossé for contributing to the discussion leading to this article) The common belief is that reorganizing infrastructure teams will inherently improve efficiency and reduce costs. However, our key insight is that altering organizational boundaries does not fundamentally change the work required for cloud systems. It does impact the distribution of roles and responsibilities, and how teams interact and prioritize, but not the tasks involved in building and running cloud systems. Reorganization shifts where the work takes place, not what that work fundamentally demands. Smaller companies may consolidate teams seeking economies of scale. Larger organizations decentralize to limit accumulated complexity. But the work remains the same. Over the past two years we conducted hundreds of interviews with engineering leaders, CTOs, CEOs, heads of infrastructure and platform, DevOps organizations, teams and infrastructure engineers, and we’ve

Introduction (I’d like to thank Jordyn Bonds , Nick Tittley and Brian Bossé for contributing to the discussion leading to this article) The common belief is that reorganizing infrastructure teams will inherently improve efficiency and reduce costs. However, our key insight is that altering organizational boundaries does not fundamentally change the work required for cloud systems. It does impact the distribution of roles and responsibilities, and how teams interact and prioritize, but not the tasks involved in building and running cloud systems. Reorganization shifts where the work takes place

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