What Melvin Conway thinks about management

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Computer scientist; his 1968 paper How Do Committees Invent? gave the observation known as Conway's law, that organisations design systems that copy their communication structures.

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   Our readingManagers whose prestige is tied to their budget will expand their organisations.

   Their wordsAs long as the manager's prestige and power are tied to the size of his budget, he will be motivated to expand his organization.

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