conways law

conways law

law

Any organization that designs a system/product will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure.

Government office example

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Conway's Law as a way to spur innovation

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Multiple Select

WHAT CAN GO WRONG IF WE DONT CARE ABOUT CONVAYS LAW

• Slower performance from systems talking to each other in sequence

• Increased complexity

• Misunderstandings between teams

• Lack of knowledge sharing between people in different teams

• Increased number of things that can fail &

  New classes of bugs arising from system interactions

  e.g

  Code duplication

The End

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Further reading

https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/applying-conways-law-improve-your-software-development