spa conference: implications of conway's law
DESCRIPTION
Conway's Law is a simple statement "Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure." Come to this session to reflect on the implications of Conway's Law for software development. We'd like to explore ideas on how we should organise software developers working on a large code base and what ways can we adapt communications within and between teams to improve system design.TRANSCRIPT
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IMPLICATIONS OF CONWAY’S LAW
Rachel Davies & Dadi Ingolfsson
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AND YOU?
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"Any organization that designs a system will inevitably produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure.” Melvin E. Conway
ConWay’s Law
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HUMAN LAYER
Derinkuyu underground city
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Jens Irma Amir
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How should we organise software developers working on a large code base and what ways can we adapt communications within and between teams to improve system design ?
KILLER QUESTION
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FISHBOWL/PARK BENCH
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FISHFOOD
• Talk to your neighbour to generate questions
for the bowl
• Write them on sticky notes with a marker pen
• We will scribe key points from discussion
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