That is well put, and I'm going steal some of those words in the follow-up I'm writing. I essentially feel that teams should grow when tech and process initiatives have led to creation of a whole new problem space that can be explored independently.
Consciously applying Conway's to identify communication boundaries sounds like a good way to get there.
Thanks! Indeed, it's the interfaces that are hardest to define. I don't know a good heuristic to determine it I'm afraid - everything I've ever done was on intuition.
Consciously applying Conway's to identify communication boundaries sounds like a good way to get there.