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Why is Meg obsessed with Conway’s Law in September 2026?
Because every executive conversation right now sounds the same:
“I see emerging a lot of room for friction in roles and responsibilities.”
Sales vs. Customer Success. Product vs. Engineering. Who owns the upsell? Who owns the data? Who owns the outcome?
This isn’t new. It’s Conway’s Law.
“Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.”
In plain English: your business will operate exactly like your org chart — bottlenecks included.
Your org chart became the bottleneck
Meg and Amy lived this in SaaS with the rise of Customer Success.
With on premise, we just had sales and support. But with SaaS, customers needed to use what they bought, not just buy it. Suddenly:
Was the upsell a Sales’ job or a Success’ job? Who owned onboarding vs. expansion?
“The organization structure really became a bottleneck of its own,” Meg says. “Understanding where those dividing lines were is important for understanding the kind of places where you can predict human challenges emerging.”
Sound familiar? That’s Conway’s Law in action.
Why RACI and DRIs don’t fix it
Most leadership teams respond the same way: more clarity.
Directly Responsible Individuals. RACI charts. Role definitions. Swimlanes.
Clarity feels productive, but Meg’s take is blunt:
“I believe the solution is aligned incentives, not just clarity of roles and responsibilities.”
Why? “If you just clarify roles and responsibilities, what you’ve done is you’ve solved the problem by taking the responsibility yourself as the owner for defining the structure — as opposed to solving the systems problem of the leadership team to care about that shared goal.”
Clarity assigns the boxes. Alignment fixes the system.
Proof from Oracle: when ownership blocks innovation
Meg and Amy felt this at Oracle firsthand.
“We had heated conversations about which data belonged in the core products and which data belonged in the talent suite,” Meg recalls.
“It was very hard to get alignment on the architectural vision because we had conflicting ownership within the different teams. And the human ownership model became a barrier for the innovation that we were trying to bring forward.”
Engineers couldn’t support a shared model because they didn’t own it. The architecture copied the org friction — exactly what Conway predicted.
Why this matters more with AI
This is why it’s top of mind now. Roles are murkier than ever.
AI is doing parts of sales, support, marketing, engineering, and HR. The old boxes don’t hold.
Amy puts it perfectly: clarifying roles used to be a “band-aid.” Now, “with roles being so murky, we actually have to tackle aligned incentives, or there’s just nothing.”
Meg’s test for executives:
What is the opportunity we’re missing if we just keep in our existing structure and operating model? And what is the opportunity we could capture if we change?
What to do this week: 3 moves
Find one friction point. Where do handoffs consistently stall? Sales to Success, Product to Engineering — name it.
Stop rewriting the roles. Don’t launch another RACI. Ask instead: do both teams win if the customer wins?
Align one shared incentive. One shared goal, one shared metric, owned jointly for 90 days. Watch what changes.
As Meg and Amy close the episode: “It’s all about alignment.”
Watch the full hot take on The Meg and Amy Show — STOP CLARIFYING ROLES — and tell us in the comments: where is friction showing up on your team right now?
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