Quotes About Conway's law

SRP: The Single Responsibility Principle An active corollary to Conway's law: The best structure for a software system is heavily influenced by the social structure of the organization that uses it so that each software module has one, and only one, reason to change.

Reorganizations that ignore Conway's law, team cognitive load, and related dynamics risk acting like open heart surgery performed by a child: highly destructive.

Melvin Conway, in a statement that became known as Conway's Law, made the following observation: "Any organization that designs a system (defined more broadly here than just information systems) will inevitably produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure." [17]