Quoting Melvin E. Conway, How Do Committees Invent?

Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.

— Melvin E. Conway, How Do Committees Invent?

3:14pm on March 4, 2024 from Bristol, United Kingdom.


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