How organizational boundaries and misaligned incentives prevent successful teams from building shared enterprise value.
An enterprise can have exceptional engineering teams and still end up with a fragmented architecture.
Each team delivers against its commitments, and each makes sound decisions within its budget, boundaries, and performance measures. Those same decisions produce duplicated capabilities, incompatible implementations, and rising operational complexity.
The organization rewards local success and expects enterprise value to appear on its own.
Architecture reflects the incentives.
https://primamachina.substack.com/p/local-success-doesnt-create-enterprise