Architecture & practice·Teams, ownership and Conway's law
they wanted the architecture split three ways, so they reorganised the teams first and waited.
Inverse Conway manoeuvre
Also calledinverse conway maneuver, reverse Conway
Deliberately reshaping teams to produce the architecture you want, rather than fighting the architecture the current teams will inevitably produce. It is a genuinely powerful move and an expensive one, because reorganisations cost months of productivity and social capital. It is also the honest answer to why a technically sound decomposition failed: the boundary was drawn in the code but not in the org chart, so it eroded.