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Conway's Law (2022)
Systems are constrained to follow the communication patterns of their designers.
Similarly dividing people along the lines of life-cycle activity (analysis, design, coding, testing) means lots of hand-offs to get a feature from idea to production. Here we deliberately alter the development team's organization structure to encourage the desired software architecture, an approach referred to as the Inverse Conway Maneuver. Bill Codding, Birgitta Boeckeler, Camilla Crispim, Chris Ford, Gabriel Sadaka, Matteo Vaccari, Michael Chaffee, and Unmesh Joshi reviewed drafts of this article and suggested improvements
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