Probably not, I think there is utility in relating two similar things, especially when someone is likely to be more familiar with one over the other. Someone who knows networks really well could find it useful to model an engineering team as a network. What really matters is whether modeling the engineering team as a network is useful in your case or not.
Not offtopic but fair comment. The cliche is a clue that what follows is likely to be 1-dimensional and reductionist. Possibly lazy too, but I’m not sure that would be fair here - it wasn’t such a low-effort article to warrant that.