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Yep. Conway's law [1]: Organizations which design systems (in the broad sense used here) are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communicati
by claytongulick 2y ago
Yep. Conway's law [1]:
Organizations which design systems (in the broad sense used here) are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
— Melvin E. Conway, How Do Committees Invent?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
- Rhapso 2y agoYou can run it backwards! Get a high level software design, then make the org-chart.
- jrs235 2y agoThere's a book by Lex Sisney about that called Organizational Physics. Interesting read.
- forrestthewoods 2y agoYup. You ship your org structure.