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An annotated collection of 1 papers on software architecture, spanning 1968. Featuring works by Melvin E. Conway — 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…