Conway's Law

October 14, 2022 - 1 min read

communication
systems
organizations

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’s communication structure. (Conway 1968)

— Melvin Conway

This is true.

References

Conway, Melvin E. 1968. “How Do Committees Invent?” https://web.archive.org/web/20190919111512/http://melconway.com/Home/Committees_Paper.html.