Conway's Law
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Организации проектируют системы, которые копируют структуру коммуникаций в этой организации
-- Закон Конвея
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If you have four groups working on a compiler, you’ll get a 4-pass compiler.
-- Eric Raymond
Если над системой начинает работать 5 отдельных команд, то внутри системы будет как минимум 5 модулей, не важно каких, но их будет 5.
Если структура организации не отражает ее потребностей, то:
- Making any decision will require making multiple other decisions in multiple different groups
- Communication through many groups, layers and hierarchy will be very slow and inefficient.
- Communication and translation errors will occur, which may cause that messages won’t be delivered to the recipient
- All kind of rules, procedures and political nuances will be a barrier to make decisions and strategic changes
- Fear of change will make people keep their habits. In their opinion, it may lead to the loss of power and position in the organization.