Sublime

Conway’s Law doesn’t leave anyone guessing about how to make organizational communication structures work for the greater good. As the conclusion of Conway’s paper states: We have found a criterion for the structuring of design organizations: a design effort should be organized according to the need for communication.

Part IV: Beyond the Basics.

the team to serve as the first and primary accountability mechanism.

John Gunther was to write about Roosevelt’s “worst quality,” a “deviousness,” a “lack of candor” that “verged on deceit.” Men who had known Roosevelt longer—when he had been Governor of New York—used stronger words; in Albany it had been whispered that a commitment from the Governor could not be trusted; New York City’s ordinarily mild-mannered leg

The broad powers possessed by the Board of Estimate, the upper house of the city’s bicameral legislature, would normally have made ignoring it impossible. But many of those powers rested on the power of the purse and the purse that was financing most of Moses’ projects was not the Board’s but the federal government’s. And the power that remained to