Conway’s Law

Sky Chin
3 min readMay 19, 2021

Changing software architecture by changing teams.

Many years after Melvin Conway published “How Do Committees Invent?”, he summarised his 45 paragraphs thesis into one sentence:

Any organization that designs a system (defined more broadly here than just information systems) will inevitably produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization’s communication structure. — Conway’s Law

Conway’s Law suggested that the software architecture eventually copies the communication structure.

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