What is it?
Check out the definition on Wikipedia.
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Organizations which design systems (in the broad sense used here) are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
— Melvin E. Conway, How Do Committees Invent?
Why is it…here..?
Mostly as a reminder.
I’ve seen this happen so often now. This is often more difficult to solve than the technical hurdles we face. If I ever pick up some methods on how to handle this kind of challenge, I’ll loop back around and fill this in with some hopefully helpful information.