Brand Back Linkers2026-01-04T06:54:32+00:00If you’ve ever looked at a software company’s org chart and thought, “That explains nothing,” you’re not wrong.
On paper, everything looks tidy. Product here. Engineering there. QA somewhere near the bottom. DevOps floating off to the side. In reality, modern software organizations don’t work vertically.
They work through constant negotiation, collaboration, and trade-offs. And the companies that understand this build faster, scale more predictably, and break less often.
So how do modern software organizations actually work? Let’s peel back the layers.
Org Charts...