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Conway’s Law Doesn’t Apply to Rigid Designs
Advocates of the Inverse Conway Manoeuvre tell us that all we have to do is to reorganise teams to get a better system design. But, if the software itself, the sociotechnical environment that creates it, and the beliefs the people hold about the system, are all systems in their own right, and they’re all impacted by the organisation’s communication structure, then applying the Manoeuvre becomes a lot more messy.