> What might have been a “Data Delivery Team” charged with delivering fresh data to customers unfortunately becomes “Data ingestion Team”, “Data processing Team” and “Data Release Team” (real world example).

This split is eerily similar to Backend, UI, Ops, which is the very thing the author criticized earlier in the post. It sounds like the teams they ended up with just weren't cross-functional teams.

There's another tell, too: "Data-Delivery". What does that even mean? From my perspective, I have zero clue. There's likely a dozen different ways to slice that up into discrete sets of user experiences of features. And then you can organize cross-functional teams around those experiences, like: reliability, visualizations, integrations, etc.

Of course, things aren't always that clean. The real world is much more murky.