Software Design: Tidy First?

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Pattern: progress is blocked by a dependency on another project/team/organization/company.

Transformation: merge, temporarily or permanently, whole or in part, the 2 entities

Sometimes a blocking dependency is just the universe telling you that you have the wrong organization. What would a reorganization look like that would eliminate the dependency?

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