[hhhAndrew]

Exactly. I have the same thought about Conway's Law aka "the software structure will end up matching the company's org chart".

Conway's Law is not a code smell to be avoided. Avoiding it is sisyphean, a band-aid, and nearly impossible.

Instead, Conway's Law is a way, indeed the only sustainable way, to choose the software structure.

[regularfry]

Applying the intended software architecture to the org chart is often known as the Inverse Conway Manoeuvre.