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Organisations that design systems are constrained to produce designs that copy their communication structures.

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
    The basic thesis of this article is that organizations which design systems (in the broad sense used here) are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.

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