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Also known as "Conway's law" > Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's c

Also known as "Conway's law" > Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law

CobrastanJorji 3y ago
Right. Conway's Law describes the property that the architecture will grow to resemble the org chart. I'm suggesting that you can productively apply that principal to produce good software by shaping the org chart. If Conway's Law is phrenology, the "science" of determining someone's personality by measuring their skull's dimensions, I'm suggesting Terry Prachett's retrophrenology, the process of hitting someone with a hammer very precisely to make them a better person.