Conway’s Law is not intended to be a joke or nasty witticism:
…organizations which design systems … are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
– Melvin Conway
(via Fare via Wikipedia)
More tersely: if a compiler team is divided into four subteams, you get a four-pass compiler.
And if the organization has poor or non-existent communication structures you end up with…
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More tersely: if a compiler team is divided into four subteams, you get a four-pass compiler.
And if the organization has poor or non-existent communication structures you end up with…
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