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.
James Rosen-Birchx.comConway’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.
Many will start with the product vision, come up with an architectural approach to deliver on that vision, and then design the teams around that architecture.
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large companies do not usually have efficient communication paths from the people closest to some of these changes at the bottom of the company to the top of the company which are the people making the big decisions … Even in the case where part of the company does the right thing at the lower levels, usually the upper levels screw it up somehow.