Conway's Law of Software Engineering

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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:law
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:Conway's_Law
gptkbp:appliesTo software engineering
system design
gptkbp:category organizational behavior
software engineering principle
gptkbp:citation academic literature on software engineering
gptkbp:describes relationship between organizational structure and system design
gptkbp:example distributed teams create distributed systems
siloed organizations create siloed software modules
gptkbp:formedBy gptkb:Melvin_Conway
1967
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Conway's Law of Software Engineering
gptkbp:influenced organizational design
microservices architecture
gptkbp:publishedIn gptkb:Datamation_magazine
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Brooks'_Law
gptkb:Gall's_Law
gptkbp:state organizations design systems that mirror their own communication structure
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Conway's_law
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6