Why your team should work like an open source project

What Conway’s Law Means for Your Organization

Your Product follows your organizational structure

Conway’s Law (Source: Bonkers World, Manut Cornet)

Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization’s communication structure.

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  • Brooks’s Law
    Brooks’ Law describes that if you subsequently allocate resources to an already late (software) project, you only further delay the project.
  • Hackmans’s Law
    Hackman’s Law states that the larger a group is, the more difficult it becomes for its members to work together. Worse, the group’s vulnerability to trouble increases sharply as it grows.
  • Goodhart’s Law
    Goodhart’s Law states that when measuring becomes a goal, it is no longer a good measure. This means that if you only work according to the measurement of a goal achievement, you have lost sight of the real goal (a good product, service, etc.).
  • Larman’s Law
    Larman’s Law states that organizations are implicitly optimized not to change the status quo of middle and top management, “specialists” and its power structures.
  • Parkinson’s Law
    Parkinson’s Law states that a job always takes as long as the time I have to do it.

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Jan Wokittel

✦ Helping Visioneers to shape the digitized future and bring their ideas to life. As an engineer and entrepreneur I would like to inspire and generate sparks. ✦