It may have been an interesting observation in 1968 but it's "not even wrong" today. IMO there is tons of useless friction in trying /not/ to ship the org chart

It may have been an interesting observation in 1968 but it's "not even wrong" today. IMO there is tons of useless friction in trying /not/ to ship the org chart. I've observed orgs where the software boundaries/APIs line up with organizational ones, and others where they have nothing to do with one another. The latter require years of meetings and proofs of concept before half-shipping products nobody wants. The former just ship software relatively cheaply, and if it's the wrong thing it's cheap enough to change it. No other industry tries to avoid shipping their org chart. GE's space division does not consult with the oven division before it builds something.