Gnome Board President & EndlessOS CEO | Robert McQueen
Tech Over Tea
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The Role of Social Design in Software Engineering
The way that the organism works reflects the environment it creates and leaves behind. So if you have a really weird organization structure or you set goals in a really weird way, then you end up with also really weird software that reflects it. And so big companies which have these complicated structures kind of stamp those complex structures on the software that they make. I think it's Conway's Law. It's basically like the software architecture will reflect the organizational architecture. That creates it. Nokia was like a worked example of Conway's law. Some of my most profitable days as a consultant would be in Helsinki where we were trying to solve problems for customers. We're like, each of them wanted to be the
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