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For reference (as per Wikipedia):

Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure.

— Melvin E. Conway

Imagine interpreting that as advice on how you should try to design things, lol.

Tbf, I think most of the post is just typical LinkedIn fluff, but I didn't want to take the poor fellow out of context.

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[-] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I feel like the subtext the post doesn't say explicitly is that most management structure are not setup this way and thus software projects end up with a non-optimal design.

[-] NotAnonymousAtAll@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

That is pretty much a given. Why else write about it at all?

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