You joke -- maybe -- but there's not just a grain of truth in Dare's observation, but a whole boulder of truth. If it helps the success of the project, then so be it. Conway's Law isn't such a bad thing.
I agree completely. If there鈥檚 something positive about microservices, it鈥檚 the connection of technical to organizational boundaries, and if they fail, a lack of this is the most frequently occurring reason