How do committees invent

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The risks of large organizations in developing complex systems. Organization and Architecture. My current favorite is the complex of social issues encompassing poverty in America: access to labor markets, housing, education, and health care. After reading the paper, think about how the structures of our various governments affect their approaches to this system.

Does this principle also work inversely? In organising productive communities, especially those working on sourcecode, my working thesis has long been that the architecture of the code informs the architecture of the community. And we all know how very hard it is to change a system of power, especially one that has operated more or less well enough for years, to something that implicitly limits the power of those who had it before. Blog about me. Melvin Conway, How do committees invent?

JeffGrigg1 , May 3, The second step in the disintegration of a system design — the fragmentation of the design organization communication structure — begins as soon as delegation has started. Third, the homomorphism insures that the structure of the system will reflect the disintegration which has occurred in the design organization. Ideally your technology architecture will display isomorphism with your business architecture. This criterion creates problems because the need to communicate at any time depends on the system concept in effect at that time.

Because the design which occurs first is almost never the best possible, the prevailing system concept may need to change. Ways must be found to reward design managers for keeping their organizations lean and flexible.

There is need for a philosophy of system design management which is not based on the assumption that adding manpower simply adds to productivity. I guess, this is where Team Topologies comes into play.