Melvin Conway
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Computer scientist; his 1968 paper How Do Committees Invent? gave the observation known as Conway's law, that organisations design systems that copy their…
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Organisations that design systems are constrained to produce designs that copy their communication structures. (opens korrents.com)
“The basic thesis of this article is that 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.”
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No design group can be both organised and unbiased. (opens korrents.com)
“Therefore, there is no such thing as a design group which is both organized and unbiased.”
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An organisation that is not fully flexible in how it communicates stamps an image of itself on every design it produces. (opens korrents.com)
“To the extent that an organization is not completely flexible in its communication structure, that organization will stamp out an image of itself in every design it produces.”
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Organisations that design systems are constrained to produce designs that copy their communication structures. (opens korrents.com)