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bliki: 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."–Marvin Conway
Wikipedia • Conway's law
Conway’s Law:
‘For any organization that builds systems, the systems they produce reflect the communication structures of that organization.’
If your organization is inefficient and disjointed, or dictatorial and myopic, it shows in your products.
‘For any organization that builds systems, the systems they produce reflect the communication structures of that organization.’
If your organization is inefficient and disjointed, or dictatorial and myopic, it shows in your products.
James Rosen-Birch • Tweet
Conway’s Law is a celebrated truism in software development: technical systems tend to resemble the communication structures of the organizations that create them.
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
Mythical Man-Month, Anniversary Edition, The: Essays On Software Engineering
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Conway’s law tells us that an organization’s structure and the actual communication paths between teams persevere in the resulting architecture of the systems built.