What Melvin Conway thinks about war

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

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   Their wordsThis is one reason why military-style organizations design systems which look like their organization charts.

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