The observation that the architecture of a system built by an organization tends to mirror the organization's own communication structure, since the boundaries across which teams must coordinate tend to become the boundaries between the modules of the system they build.
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Core PrincipleConway's law describes the link between communication structure of organizations and the systems they design. 1 Connections
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1. Conway's law, Wikipedia
Opening paragraph, sentence beginning 'It is named after the computer scientist and programmer Melvin Conway'
It is named after the computer scientist and programmer Melvin Conway, who introduced the idea in 1967.
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Conway's law describes the link between communication structure of organizations and the systems they design.
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