3 ms·
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_law > Organizations which design systems (in the broad sense used here) are c
by transpute 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_law
> 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?
- transpute 2y agoSource code repos could have USER.md and DEVELOPER.md files to record social context.
- lou1306 2y agoBut again, that is at best infrastructure documentation, not code. Unless you dilute the term "code" until it loses nearly all utility.
- transpute 2y agoUser (social) org structure and Developer (social) org structure are unavoidable requirements which constrain code implementation, as much as processor speed and memory capacity.