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Conway’s Law

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)

2 Comments

  1. John Cowan wrote:

    More tersely: if a compiler team is divided into four subteams, you get a four-pass compiler.

    Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 10:54 am | Permalink
  2. Ben Simon wrote:

    And if the organization has poor or non-existent communication structures you end up with…

    Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 9:22 am | Permalink

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