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ORGANIZATIONS WHICH DESIGN SYSTEMS ... ARE CONSTRAINED TO PRODUCE DESIGNS WHICH

ARE COPIES OF THE COMMUNICATION

STRUCTURES OF THESE ORGANIZATIONS.

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Dev Team 1

Dev Team 2

Dev Team 3

Dev Team 4

Operations

QA

Development

UI Dev Team 1

UI Dev Team 2

UI Dev Team 4

UI Dev Team 3

QA Team 1 QA Team 2

UNIX Admin

App Admin

Storage Admin

Datacenter Admin

Database Admin

Network Admin

Web AdminWindows

Admin

Backend Dev Team 1

Backend Dev Team 2

Backend Dev Team 4

Backend Dev Team 3

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Web Dev Team 1

Web Dev Team 2

App Dev Team 4

App Dev Team 3

Web QA Team

App QA Team

UNIX Admin

App

Admin

Storage Admin

Datacenter Admin

Database Admin

Network Admin

Web Admin

Windows Admin

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UI Dev Team 1

UI Dev Team 2

UI Dev Team 4

UI Dev Team 3

QA Team 1 QA Team 2

UNIX Admin

App Admin

Storage Admin

Datacenter Admin

Database Admin

Network Admin

Web AdminWindows

Admin

Backend Dev Team 1

Backend Dev Team 2

Backend Dev Team 4

Backend Dev Team 3

Application #2

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UI Dev 1-n

UI QA 1-n

Ops 1-n

Backend Dev 1-n

Product #2

DBA 1-n

QA 1-n

UI Dev 1-n

UI QA 1-n

Ops 1-n

Backend Dev 1-n

QA 1-n

UI Dev 1-n

UI QA 1-n

Ops 1-n Ops 1-n

Backend Dev 1-n

DBA 1-n

QA 1-n

UI Dev 1-n

UI QA 1-n

Ops 1-n

Backend Dev 1-n

Product #2

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DBA 1-n

QA 1-n

UI Dev 1-n

UI QA 1-n

Ops 1-n

Backend Dev 1-n

QA 1-n

UI Dev 1-n

UI QA 1-n

Ops 1-n Ops 1-n

Backend Dev 1-n

DBA 1-n

QA 1-n

UI Dev 1-n

UI QA 1-n

Ops 1-n

Backend Dev 1-n

Product #2

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DBA 1-n

QA 1-n

UI Dev 1-n

UI QA 1-n

Ops 1-n

Backend Dev 1-n

QA 1-n

UI Dev 1-n

UI QA 1-n

Ops 1-n Ops 1-n

Backend Dev 1-n

DBA 1-n

QA 1-n

UI Dev 1-n

UI QA 1-n

Ops 1-n

Backend Dev 1-n

Product Teams

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DBA 1-n

QA 1-n

UI Dev 1-n

UI QA 1-n

Ops 1-n

Backend Dev 1-n

QA 1-n

UI Dev 1-n

UI QA 1-n

Ops 1-n

Data Store

DevOps Tooling

Other Service or Tool

Platform Teams

Project #2

UI Dev

UI QA

Ops

Backend Dev

QA

DBA

UI Dev

Backend Dev

UI QA

UI QA

UI QA

QA

QA

OpsOps

UI Dev

UI Dev 1-n

UI QA 1-n

Ops 1-n

Backend Dev 1-n

Product Teams

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DBA 1-n

QA 1-n

UI Dev 1-n

UI QA 1-n

Ops 1-n

Backend Dev 1-n

QA 1-n

UI Dev 1-n

UI QA 1-n

Ops 1-n

Sustaining Team(s)

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