For reference (as per Wikipedia):

Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization’s communication structure.

— Melvin E. Conway

Imagine interpreting that as advice on how you should try to design things, lol.

Tbf, I think most of the post is just typical LinkedIn fluff, but I didn’t want to take the poor fellow out of context.

  • Fades@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I hate project managers like this so fucking much. You won’t know what you’re talking about and your trying to force unrelated shit into design discussions…. Because they don’t know what the fuck they’re talking about.

    A good PM will empower the team but this shit is the exact opposite and I see it all the fucking time. Fuck people like this so much

  • groucho@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    “I should make sure my software architecture mirrors our org’s communication structure.”

    Conway’s law exists

    “Holy shit I am already so good at this.”