> Some divergence is useful for agility, but a lot of it is just waste and actually slows you down when you want two depts to work together on something - or ev

> Some divergence is useful for agility, but a lot of it is just waste and actually slows you down when you want two depts to work together on something - or even prevents useful collaboration. An effective organisation will make the tradeoff consciously. Often an effective strategy for this to purposefully diverge and converge. Allow a new product to strike it out on its own, and if it survives follow back up and homogenize the infra so that maintenance is cheaper. Takes a lot of labor, but that’s usually something large organizations have in spades.