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Bringing structure to chaos: lessons from a multi-component open source project

Bringing structure to chaos: lessons from a multi-component open source project

When I joined a complex open source project with many components, I expected to spend my first weeks understanding the architecture and diving into code. Instead, I found a gap: the architects had a clear vision (Miro boards, diagrams, the big picture) but it wasn’t translating into something engineers could work from. The gap was in process and communication, not in intent. The team was spinning in meetings where you leave and still don’t know what was decided. Here’s what we did to bring structure back.

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