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Re:Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they ar... by hhhAndrew on Saturday February 24, 2024 @08:30PM (#39496772)
Exactly. I have the same thought about Conway's Law aka "the software structure will end up matching the company's org chart".

Conway's Law is not a code smell to be avoided. Avoiding it is sisyphean, a band-aid, and nearly impossible.

Instead, Conway's Law is a way, indeed the only sustainable way, to choose the software structure.

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Re:Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they ar... by regularfry on Sunday February 25, 2024 @06:07AM (#39499799)
Applying the intended software architecture to the org chart is often known as the Inverse Conway Manoeuvre.
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