We were recently discussing Conway’s Law in the context of the ongoing transition towards solutions which are digital in their core. The law is named after programmer Melvin Conway who first introduced it in 1967 and said: ‘ organizations which design systems … are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.’ If Conway is right, then this means that implementing a new inherently digital solution requires organizations to change structures or at least their ways to communicate. Sounds like change is inevitable …
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