Conway's Law.

This week I came across Conway's Law which says "Organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations."

I think its important to note that in a project comprising of different teams, the teams should NOT work in silo.

For e.g.
A project may consist of following teams - User interface teams (create screens), developer team (code), reporting team (develop reports) , Quality control team and the deployment/server monitoring team.

Now it may so happen that the reporting team create report wherein they write the entire logic in Stored procedures as the team would be well versed in writing procedures and interaction with the development team is limited.

In this scenario, the performance team and monitoring team may find a procedure taking up resources of database and may find it as a root cause of server slow down. But in reality, the real root cause lies in whats Conway's Law says.

If the development team and reporting team worked together then probably during the transaction itself a summary table could have been populated on which the reports could work.