We discussed Conway's Law in Chapter 1, Understanding Cloud Native Concepts, but it bears repeating, because it is important to empower self-sufficient, full-stack teams to succeed with cloud-native.
"organizations are constrained to produce application designs which are copies of their communication structures"
We are leaving the legacy system in place during the migration so you will want to leave your legacy teams in place to support it. We will assume that you have optimized the communications channels to support your legacy system, so leave those teams in place as-is. However, to build and support your new cloud-native system, you will need to build cloud-native teams and empower them to go about their business.
Cloud-native teams are self-sufficient. This is another way of saying that they are cross-functional. Each...