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How CTOs Use Conway's Law to Shape Team Boundaries
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how savvy CTOs apply Conway's Law — the observation that organizations design systems that mirror their communication structures — as a proactive tool for shaping team boundaries. Using a real-world case from a large retailer, they show how a monolithic architecture was untangled by reorganizing into cross-functional squads aligned to business capabilities, boosting deployment frequency from weekly to multiple times a day. They discuss how leaders can invert the usual approach: define team communication patterns first, then let architecture follow…
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