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Probably the biggest common cause of poorly designed systems is a design organisation in need of work.

Drawn from what Melvin Conway said

Subjectdesign
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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
    Probably the greatest single common factor behind many poorly designed systems now in existence has been the availability of a design organization in need of work.

    Where this was said

    ↗How Do Committees Invent?melconway.com

    c. 1968

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