{"id":201,"date":"2009-01-04T17:30:46","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T22:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/04\/conways-law\/"},"modified":"2009-01-04T17:30:48","modified_gmt":"2009-01-04T22:30:48","slug":"conways-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/04\/conways-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Conway&#8217;s Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Any organization that designs a system (defined more broadly here than just information systems) will inevitably produce <strong>a design whose structure is a copy of the organization&#8217;s communication structure.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.melconway.com\/research\/committees.html\">Melvin E. Conway<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Conway's_Law\">Wikipedia points out<\/a>, &#8220;Conway&#8217;s law was not intended as a joke .. but as a valid sociological observation. It is a consequence of the fact that two software modules A and B cannot interface correctly with each other unless the people who made A communicate with the people who made B. Thus the interface structure of a software system <em>necessarily<\/em> will show a congruence with the social structure of the organization that produced it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any organization that designs a system (defined more broadly here than just information systems) will inevitably produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization&#8217;s communication structure. &#8211;Melvin E. Conway As Wikipedia points out, &#8220;Conway&#8217;s law was not intended as a joke .. but as a valid sociological observation. It is a consequence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4,24],"tags":[286,287,40,169],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-programming","category-quotes","tag-committees","tag-communication","tag-psychology","tag-software-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}