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This is what I was thinking as well. Once you recognize Conway's Law and Sinofsky's "don't ship the org chart" quote, you start to see it a lot in large compani
by allenu 6y ago
This is what I was thinking as well. Once you recognize Conway's Law and Sinofsky's "don't ship the org chart" quote, you start to see it a lot in large companies.
Want another great example? If you write iOS apps, you'll probably have worked with the App Store Connect website. That site is such a hodgepodge of slightly different UI paradigms that it could only have been written by multiple teams with differing goals and timelines.
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- novok 6y agoI've come to the conclusion that you want to structure your org chart to deliver the structure of application / experience you ultimately want to provide.
- allenu 6y agoThis reminds me of the famous comic about org structures of various companies. [1] Perhaps this is why Steve Jobs liked to get his fingers in everything, to make sure everything flowed smoothly according to his vision. [1] https://bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts https://bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts
- nullsense 6y agoThis is what's known as an "Inverse Conway Maneuver"
- BoiledCabbage 6y agoGuess what, you've just invented re-orgs. And the reason why big tech (and other) companies continuously shuffle around teams and their structure.