{"id":16,"date":"2015-05-19T21:47:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T21:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthew-morris.com\/wp2\/?p=16"},"modified":"2020-11-05T21:52:56","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T21:52:56","slug":"conways-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matthew-morris.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/conways-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Conway\u2019s Law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Conway\u2019s_law\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Conway\u2019s_law<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201corganizations which design systems \u2026 are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structure&nbsp;of these organizations\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A more generalised statement of Conway\u2019s Law is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201ctechnological systems and political systems mirror each other\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Colloraries:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1) If you try to change the deep structure of technological systems, this will have major political implications. Don\u2019t assume that you can put an information bus or microservices in place as a purely technological fix. The more effective any such change will be, the more of the current political landscape you will be invalidating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2) More generally, you can\u2019t fix primarily political problems by technological means. If you are getting too far ahead of the political change you wish to effect, you will be pulled back, no matter how good the technology is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3) You can\u2019t fix primarily technological problems by political means: you can\u2019t make up for the lack of fundamental technology by building coalitions, no matter how well-intentioned everyone is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Conway\u2019s_law \u201corganizations which design systems \u2026 are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structure&nbsp;of these organizations\u201d A more generalised statement of Conway\u2019s Law is: \u201ctechnological systems and political systems mirror each other\u201d Colloraries: 1) If you try to change the deep structure of technological systems, this will have major political implications. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.matthew-morris.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/conways-law\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Conway\u2019s Law&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthew-morris.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthew-morris.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthew-morris.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthew-morris.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthew-morris.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthew-morris.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthew-morris.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matthew-morris.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthew-morris.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matthew-morris.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}