Conway's Law
# Definition
Any Organization that designs a system … will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization’s communication structure.
- Mel Conway
# Confirmation
Confirmed in
- automotive design
- jet engine design
- open source & proprietary software
- large scale software development
The homomorphic force really does exist
Coordination problems were greatly exaggerated across sites, largely because of breakdown of informal communication channels.
- Herbsleb/Grinter
# Modern Version
If the architecture of the system and the architecture of the organization are at odds, the architecture of the organization wins.
- Ruth Malan