Beyond Boxes and Lines: Designing for the System of Systems Your Software Must Live In Architecture diagrams look clean—until they collide with the place your system actually lives. That place is not just “production.” It’s your organization: a dense system of systems made of teams, processes, policies, budgets, and tools. The primary reason to understand the organization in which a system will reside is precisely these systems. Your software must integrate with them as surely as it integrates with databases and queues.

If your software keeps tripping over budgets, reviews, and handoffs, the problem isn’t “process”—it’s habitat. Design for the organizational system of systems your code must live in, and let Conway’s Law work for you, not against you. #SystemOfSystems #BusinessArchitecture #ConwaysLaw #OrgDesign