The price of reuse
Thoughtworks Technology Podcast
Thoughtworks
4.5 • 58 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
For any large, multinational enterprise, there’s a dilemma at the heart of their software architecture. Centralization promises to save costs, providing a standardized template for how to do things and not waste effort reinventing the wheel. But local markets have unique characteristics, whether that’s customer behavior, regulations or the competitive landscape.
In this episode, our co-hosts Alexey Boas and Zhamak Dehghani are joined by Sriram Narayan, an advisory consultant for ThoughtWorks India. Together, they explore the price of reuse: the challenges and trade offs for architects that arise from a centralized blueprint for IT.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the ThoughtWorks Technology Podcast. |
| 0:12.0 | My name is Alexei. I'm the head of Technology for Thoughtwix Brazil. |
| 0:15.0 | And I'll be one of your hosts this time together with Jomak. |
| 0:18.0 | Hello Jomak, how are you? |
| 0:20.0 | I'm good, Alex. Hello, everyone. I'm Jomek. Hello Jomak. How are you? I'm good Alex. Say hello |
| 0:21.0 | everyone. I'm Jomak. I'm your co-host today and connecting you from San Francisco. |
| 0:27.2 | Great. And we're here with Sridem that I am this time. Hello, Sridem. Would you mind |
| 0:32.5 | introducing yourself? Sure. And yeah, I'm happy to be on this podcast. Thanks for having me. I work as an advisory consultant for ThoughtWorks. I've been with ThoughtWorks for a long time, 15 years plus and in the industry for over 21 years. About four years ago, I wrote this book called Agile IT Organization Design, which is really about |
| 0:58.2 | organizational agility. |
| 1:01.6 | And for the last few years, I've been helping client organizations improve the performance |
| 1:07.5 | of their IT departments, product departments, digital departments, and so on. |
| 1:13.6 | More from a point of view of the overall operating model, not so much with individual skills |
| 1:19.0 | and team level things, but more as to how they are organized, how they govern, the metrics |
| 1:24.9 | they use, and such the funding models and so on and as |
| 1:31.2 | part of that you know technology strategy also enters the picture sometimes and so yeah |
| 1:38.3 | that's you know that's pretty much what I've been doing in the recent past. |
| 1:47.5 | Wow, quite a lot, quite a lot. It's going to be a very interesting conversation, I guess. |
| 1:50.3 | And we hear today to talk about the price of reuse. |
| 1:53.8 | And I guess we're talking about reuse across the enterprise. |
| 1:57.8 | And enterprise architects have that challenge and those trade-offs. Should we push the |
| 2:03.6 | lessons learned and the things that we've been doing across the enterprise to many levels? And how |
| 2:09.3 | does that limit innovation and different solutions at different places of the enterprise? So there's |
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