Tech = Social Structure (Conway's Law) + #Quote
4 Quotes:
█1 "...the technical structure of a system will reflect the social boundaries of the organizations that produced it, across which communication is more difficult "
- "Conway's Law"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_law
#Tech = #Social #Structure = #ConwaysLaw #Quote
█2 Yourdon and Constantine, in their 1979 book on Structured Design, gave a more strongly stated variation of Conway's Law:
" The structure of any system designed by an organization is isomorphic to the structure of the organization "
█3 James O. Coplien and Neil B. Harrison stated in a 2004 book concerned with organizational patterns of Agile software development:
" If the parts of an organization (e.g., teams, departments, or subdivisions) do not closely reflect the essential parts of the product, or if the relationships between organizations do not reflect the relationships between product parts, then the project will be in trouble ... "
█ 4 There’s also an old car industry joke:
" You can see the organization chart of a car company in the dashboard, and also see whether the steering wheel team hates the gear stick team. "
- on Benedict Evans website 2018-09-01
