"As soon as I join HR appears in one tile, smiling like this is definitely covered in their onboarding. It isn't. We're here today to demote a sentient diagram. Long story short: afew years ago a lightning bolt totally hit a Texas data center while someone had Lucidchart open, and a Information Architecture Tree Diagram (our old reliable sitemap buddy) woke up, and has been with us ever since."
"I glance at HR's tiny Zoom window. I'm sure the HR lady is doing the same to me. "Exactly," I say. "You're great at hierarchy, I.A. Diagram. But we keep asking you to model things that aren't just parents and children. We need our go to diagram to show shared data, reusable components, relationships that shift when users interact or when the system changes over time - and you keep telling us doing those things aren't your job.""
It's 9:03 a.m. and the narrator joins a Zoom meeting titled "Team Structure Alignment - Attendance Required" to demote a sentient Information Architecture Tree Diagram. The IA Tree awakened after a lightning bolt hit a Texas data center while Lucidchart was open and has been part of the team since. The Tree arrives with misaligned nodes and complaints about renamed root nodes and new "top-level categories" that are filters. The Tree insists its role is strict hierarchy and resists modeling prerequisites, interactions, or shifting relationships. The team explains the need for diagrams that represent shared data, reusable components, and relationships that change with user interactions or system evolution. HR attends the meeting as the team prepares a difficult conversation about role and responsibility.
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