The two team arrangement has caused me no end of problems over the past 10 years of my life, beyond shoehorning. The separation of the database team from the de

The two team arrangement has caused me no end of problems over the past 10 years of my life, beyond shoehorning. The separation of the database team from the development team introduces communication problems, priority mismatches, and fixes done on one side or the other that should have been made on the other side. If you are reading this and you have separate database and development teams, merge them now, or at the least, put control of the schema in the hands of the development team.