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by claytongulick 635 days ago
Yep. Conway's law [1]:

Organizations which design systems (in the broad sense used here) are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.

— Melvin E. Conway, How Do Committees Invent?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law

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You can run it backwards! Get a high level software design, then make the org-chart.
There's a book by Lex Sisney about that called Organizational Physics. Interesting read.
Yup. You ship your org structure.