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An annotated collection of 2 books & papers on conway law, spanning 1968 to 2019. Featuring works by Melvin E. Conway, Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.
How Do Committees Invent? (Conway's Law)
Melvin E. Conway, 1968 · Datamation, Vol. 14, No. 4
Conway's 1968 paper states a law that has turned out to apply to software, hardware, and almost every other designed system: "organisations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the…
Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow
Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais, 2019 · IT Revolution Press
Skelton and Pais take Conway's Law seriously and build an operating model from it: four fundamental team types (stream-aligned, enabling, complicated-subsystem, platform) and three interaction modes (collaboration, X-as-…