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Because the first design is almost never the best, organisational flexibility matters for good design.

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
    Because the design which occurs first is almost never the best possible, the prevailing system concept may need to change. Therefore, flexibility of organization is important to effective design.

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