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Sir Funk ?? (sophistifunk@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 15:01:58 JST Sir Funk ??

I think Conway's Law works in two directions.

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  Sir Funk ?? (sophistifunk@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 15:02:56 JST Sir Funk ??
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  What I mean is, I think external forces that act on the software (non-employee users, standards you need to interop with) leak out and infect the organisation.
  
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  Brother Phil 🇦🇺 au (philcolbourn@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 04:41:09 JST Brother Phil 🇦🇺 au
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  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
  is no help as usual: Wikipedia articles are only understood by those that think they understand them.
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    Conway's law
    
    Conway's law is an adage linking the communication structure of organizations to the systems they design. It is named after the computer programmer Melvin Conway, who introduced the idea in 1967. His original wording was: Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure. The law is based on the reasoning that in order for a product to function, the authors and designers of its component parts must communicate with each other in order to ensure compatibility between the components. Therefore, the technical structure of a system will reflect the social boundaries of the organizations that produced it, across which communication is more difficult. In colloquial terms, it means complex products end up "shaped like" the organizational structure they are designed in or designed for. The law is applied primarily in the field of software architecture, though Conway directed it more broadly and its assumptions and conclusions apply to most technical fields. Variations Eric...

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