{"id":12817,"date":"2025-01-27T11:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T18:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=12817"},"modified":"2024-12-11T12:05:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T19:05:35","slug":"conways-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=12817","title":{"rendered":"Conway&#8217;s law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Conway%27s_law\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Conway%27s_law\">Conway&#8217;s Law<\/a>:<\/strong> Principle, often cited in software development, that states the design of a system will inevitably reflect the communication structures of the organization that created it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Technical success is not just about having the smartest people\/best design. Conway&#8217;s law was originally a sociological observation about how teams work. Technical goals can become un-achievable, or velocity will dramatically slow\/collapse if the wrong structure, roles, and responsibilities are in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Therefore, it&#8217;s important to either set up an organization&#8217;s structure as well as the team roles and responsibilities (or reorganize the existing one) to achieve the desired design goals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This law has been interpreted to work both ways. You can affect design through organizational structure, or affect organizational structure by changing design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conway&#8217;s Law: Principle, often cited in software development, that states the design of a system will inevitably reflect the communication structures of the organization that created it. Technical success is not just about having the smartest people\/best design. Conway&#8217;s law was originally a sociological observation about how teams work. Technical goals can become un-achievable, or velocity will dramatically slow\/collapse if the wrong structure, roles, and responsibilities are in place. Therefore, it&#8217;s important to either set up an organization&#8217;s structure as&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=12817\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-technical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-3kJ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12817"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12822,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12817\/revisions\/12822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}