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Military-style organisations design systems that look like their organisation charts.

Drawn from what Melvin Conway said

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What these subjects mean

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

war Armed conflict and preparing for it: military spending, alliances, and what changes when machines are in the loop.

What Melvin Conway actually said

  1. Melvin Conway Computer scientist; his 1968 paper How Do Committees Invent
    This is one reason why military-style organizations design systems which look like their organization charts.

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