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> One thing I have observed about software and organizations is that big, intractable problems in code are often rooted in big, intractable problems in the org
by jperras 7y ago
> One thing I have observed about software and organizations is that big, intractable problems in code are often rooted in big, intractable problems in the organization that produced it.
You've paraphrased (intentionally or not) Conway's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
"organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations."
- Matt_Cutts 7y agoI appreciated the allusion to Conway's Law here. I will say that in a government of 2M+ people, there's a ton of problems that are completely non-partisan that everyone would like to solve where technical expertise can make a real difference.