"That is the essence of Conway's Law, going all the way back to the 1960s, where he talked about how committees designing software end up making software that reflects the structure of the committees themselves"
Conway's Law by Melvin E. Conway
"Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure."
"Fred Brooks cited the paper and the idea in his elegant classic "The Mythical Man-Month," calling it "Conway's Law."