Having to communicate over larger networks incurs costs beyond just bandwidth, latency, and synchronization. As the depth of communication increases, the messa

Having to communicate over larger networks incurs costs beyond just bandwidth, latency, and synchronization. As the depth of communication increases, the message itself often gets lost, as in the venerable 'grapevine joke' where a simple message becomes garbled after passing through multiple re-transmissions. This problem is central to businesses as they grow and must partition the growing workload into bite-sized pieces managed by ever more players. As the whole grows in size and complexity, each bite's purpose and design becomes ever more inexplicable to its owner making it more likely to fail somehow or require costly adjustments to fit into the final product/service.