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An organisation that is not fully flexible in how it communicates stamps an image of itself on every design it produces.

Drawn from what Melvin Conway said

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design How things should be made and judged: what makes a design good, who should do the designing, and what an interface is for.

What Melvin Conway actually said

  1. Melvin Conway Computer scientist; his 1968 paper How Do Committees Invent
    To the extent that an organization is not completely flexible in its communication structure, that organization will stamp out an image of itself in every design it produces.

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