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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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[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

There's another way to see it: If a project has more than three contributors it's not doing one thing, and one thing well, and should be split up.

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