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8/11/2025 • EN

How Do Committees Fail To Invent?

Explores how dysfunctional communication and veto power in tech standards committees can lead to stagnation and failure to innovate, a twist on Conway's Law.

Committee Dysfunction Conways Law Organizational Design software architecture Standards Development

Alex Russell

5/31/2025 • EN

Software architecture IS Conway's Law

Explores how Conway's Law influences software architecture, comparing solo development to collaborative teamwork and its impact on code structure.

code quality Conways Law Organizational Design software architecture Team Collaboration

Swizec Teller

8/2/2021 • EN

Team Topologies: a review

A review of the book 'Team Topologies', analyzing its ideas on structuring software teams to influence system design via Conway's Law.

Conways Law software architecture Stream Aligned Teams team organization Team Topologies

Matt Layman

3/25/2019 • EN

Thoughts on Conway's Law and the software stack

Explores how Conway's Law reveals communication gaps between hardware, firmware, kernel, and software layers, using examples like Spectre and Kubernetes.

Cloud Security Conways Law hardware open source software architecture

Jessie Frazelle

Conways Law Articles

How Do Committees Fail To Invent?

Software architecture IS Conway's Law

Team Topologies: a review

Thoughts on Conway's Law and the software stack

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