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"Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure." ( Mel
by Joel_Mckay 4y ago
"Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure."
( Melvin E. Conway, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law )
Thus, we may conclude the world has some people that choose to be "useless and unreliable". The software part is just an artifact of this ideology. =)
- pjc50 4y ago> will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure This is the original Amazon memo and the rationale for microservices. The bigger picture is that if you look at the totality of the software and hardware system, from app to browser to OS to hardware, you see that it replicates the company and market structure that produces it. Which is partly why the web is so chaotic. The web is a standards battleground over which companies fight.
- Joel_Mckay 4y ago"This is the original Amazon memo and the rationale for microservices" Ah, but the customer interface and product layer continues to degenerate regardless of the mission statement. The public always gets what they asked for... especially when it is cheap, awful, and disposable. =)