Well anything designed as SOA is just Conway's Law enshrined in architecture. Most older software was too. The org is the problem. The super bizarre outlier is

Well anything designed as SOA is just Conway's Law enshrined in architecture. Most older software was too. The org is the problem. The super bizarre outlier is the Open Source community, which doesn't really follow any organizational plan (except the corporate projects and foundations and committees that pretend they're open source). For whatever reason, Open Source succeeds despite no hierarchy, no clearly defined architecture, no particular strategy. But then again, maybe that's why it works so well. An organization has a fixed structure, rules, priorities. It can fail, lose its intellectual property, its funding, be competed against. Open Source has no such limits. It's the wild west. Do whatever you want, whenever you want, and whatever works, survives. Lke natural evolution. An organic ecosystem, rather than a plastic one.