Imo, the politics is the design.
Who is going to pay for what? Who's responsible for when a certain part goes wrong?
If you figure out the politics well, you've mostly constrained the system design to something straightforward
Who is going to pay for what? Who's responsible for when a certain part goes wrong?
If you figure out the politics well, you've mostly constrained the system design to something straightforward
— Melvin E. Conway
it's not a complete solution, as 1/I've seen this cause games of musical chairs happen that essentially stall the work and 2/ creating silos make cross-cutting concerns fail to be addressed...