The problem described in the article is one the industry has developed a solution for: SAFe, which is explicitly designed to help small teams align their goals and yeah I can't finish this with a straight face.
Haha SAFe when you want the worst of all worlds around how to setup software development teams.
More seriously SAFe is trying to solve a real problem but to actually solve it involves much deeper organizational change because of Conway's law then most people are comfortable with.
