Conway's Law

Conway’s Law: Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.

reminding self to wax on about this observing recent experience of np org planning, corp growth, bus sustainment, barcamp, recent new pers techs for info mngment, river of news, folksonomies, etc…

Of course, scrying the future inevitably relies on a mixture of hand waving, vague pronouncements, and the occasional “it’s not possible yet to do what this implies” to point the way forward. #

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