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Conway's law: a standalone construct

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Software engineering

the proposition that a system's structure mirrors the communication structure of the organization that builds it, tested through coordination across distributed teams.

In software engineering, Conway's law refers to the proposition that a system's structure mirrors the communication structure of the organization that builds it, tested through coordination across distributed teams. This meaning comes from Herbsleb (1999) in Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Software engineering.[1]

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  1. Herbsleb, J. D., & Grinter, R. E. (1999). Splitting the organization and integrating the code. Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Software engineering. https://doi.org/10.1145/302405.302455

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