Symptom-to-path

Communication Breakdowns

Information silos and misaligned mental models lead to architectural drift and friction across the team.

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archetypes

Long-term quality goals are lowered step by step instead of solving structural problems — until the exception has become the new standard.

Why this step:Explains why quality standards ('Definition of Ready/Done') gradually erode when communication pressure rises.

diagnostics

SNA exposes the real invisible architecture of organizational cliques by measuring who actually talks to whom and who remains isolated.

Why this step:Analyzes where the actual information flows in the team run, as opposed to the org chart.

diagnostics

A tool for locating organizational power and potential veto power around architecture decisions.

Why this step:Makes it transparent which roles must be involved in decisions and where communication gaps emerge.

interventions

The destruction of the cobra effect in IT by stopping the reward of failure-producing behavior and aligning incentives with system health instead.

Why this step:Addresses the root cause: why teams are often rewarded more for hoarding information than for sharing it.

tooling

Digital whiteboards for distributed teams: they enable collaborative architecture design and event storming across remote boundaries.

Why this step:Supports shared modeling and reduces misunderstandings in distributed decision-making rounds.

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