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> An organization, sooner or later, ships its org chart as its product Interesting point, reminds me of https://laughingsquid.com/organizational-charts-for-tec

• FeepingCreature 9y ago
  It's called Conway's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
• geraldcombs 9y ago
  The sentence after that ("Open source doesn’t have that problem.") is absolutely wrong in my experience. Team communication and dynamics aren't somehow magically different with open source, and pretty much every piece of open source software you use reflects the organization that produced it.
  • jrochkind1 9y ago
    Yes. And sometimes that's chaotic and disorganized ball of mush.
  • smitherfield 9y ago
    Cases in point: Mozilla, Canonical, Apache Foundation...