AI Is Quietly Rewriting Your Organization Design The gap between your intended architecture and your actual architecture may already be widening

AI Is Quietly Rewriting Your Organization Design

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#EngineeringLeadership #TeamTopologies #AgenticAI
#OrganizationDesign #ConwaysLaw #SoftwareArchitecture

Systems Thinking: Unraveling Conway’s Law This is the fifth article of a series on Systems Thinking. Previous article: Systems Thinking: The Event Horizon Metaphor Conrad, a young rising star software architect from APEX Consulting, had been ...

This is the fifth article of the Systems Thinking series which looks at the implications of Conway's Law.

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#SoftwareEngineering
#SoftwareDevelopment
#ProjectManagement
#ConwaysLaw
#DDD

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Conway’s Law: What Your Cloud Team Can Learn from Stressed Out Kitchen Staff I was reminded of Conway’s Law the day I watched an episode of The Bear where Carmy tried to redesign the entire kitchen workflow in the middle of lunch service. Onions were flying. Pans were screamin...

If your cloud architecture feels like Carmy’s kitchen during lunch rush, you might be running headfirst into Conway’s Law. I wrote about it.

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#conwayslaw #thebear #squads

Beyond Boxes and Lines: Designing for the System of Systems Your Software Must Live In Architecture diagrams look clean—until they collide with the place your system actually lives. That place is not just “production.” It’s your organization: a dense system of systems made of teams, processes, policies, budgets, and tools. The primary reason to understand the organization in which a system will reside is precisely these systems. Your software must integrate with them as surely as it integrates with databases and queues.

If your software keeps tripping over budgets, reviews, and handoffs, the problem isn’t “process”—it’s habitat. Design for the organizational system of systems your code must live in, and let Conway’s Law work for you, not against you. #SystemOfSystems #BusinessArchitecture #ConwaysLaw #OrgDesign

PMing a LLM - Nick Jakobi (Cohere)
- Thinking in pre training, post training, and launch overall
- adding marketing and scientific questions to the product set = facilitate and listen
- always think about specificity <-> general

And in the end it is once again #ConwaysLaw and #AgilePlanning 4/X

Conway's law - Wikipedia

Always love to see #ConwaysLaw in action.

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If #ConwaysLaw says organizational structures drive software design, then tracing the money explains why those structures exist, and whether the software will achieve its goals.

🎧 Hear Ian Miell on the #InfoQ #podcast for more insights: bit.ly/45spaxR

#SoftwareArchitecture #SoftwareDesign #DDD

We do not talk about the human factor of microservices. I dig in further detail in my LinkedIn article.
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#Microservices #SoftwareArchitecture #EngineeringLeadership #TeamTopologies #ConwaysLaw #OrganizationalDesign #PlatformEngineering #DevEx #LambdaLynx

Expert Interview with James Lewis

Episode 5 of our Expert Interview Series is live! 🥳 Join @boicy.bovon.org, co-creator of #Microservices, as he discusses how this methodology transformed software architecture and team collaboration. 👉 t1p.de/7mkih

#SAGconf #SAG2024 #SAGExperts #SoftwareArchitecture #iSAQB #DDD #ConwaysLaw

Wo aber die Gefahr wächst, wächst das Rettende auch.
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https://melconway.com/Home/pdf/CaptureDisruption.pdf
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Subgrouping and Conway's Law When task-oriented work groups address complex tasks, they might form subgroups to address subtasks. The structure of the subgroups and the order in which they form depend on the structure of the grou...

Subgrouping is the practice of forming a subgroup of the larger group in order to complete a subtask of the larger task. The work goes well when the structure of the subgroups and the structure of the system under development are homomorphic (#ConwaysLaw).

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Something I'll have to learn more about later when I can.

I’m at a retreat of a start-up/scale-up. And the CTO starts the presentation with “You ship your org structure” pointing out to #ConwaysLaw.

Love the framing to support their growth strategy. Hope more folks are aware and practice it for their orgs! 🌱

A hotel with pointy roofs, rounded roofs and a mix of round and square windows

When the round window team, the square windows team, the pointy roof team, the round roof team and the ugly facade team get together to build a hotel #conwayslaw

Gestern hatten wir das Vergnügen einen fantastischen Workshop zum Thema "Team Topologies" mit @ewolff.com zu erleben.

Hier gehts zum Beitrag:
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#TeamTopologies #Workshop #TeamInteraction #SoftwareArchitecture #Collaboration #CustomerExperience #ConwaysLaw

Shades of Conway's Law

Here's an updated slide deck of Shades of Conway's Law given at @dddeu.bsky.social

The deck now includes the time component to Conway's Law. It also goes deeper into the Mirroring Principle.

This thing keeps growing 🤷

#conwayslaw #dddeu

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Shades of Conway's Law

Shades of Conway’s Law

Here’s the slide deck of my session at @newcrafts.bsky.social #NewCrafts

#conwayslaw #organisations #architecture

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A Cost-Savings Case for Team Topologies

Published: A Cost-Savings Case for Team Topologies

Recently, we were asked how a technology organisation can save on costs. We advised a Team Topologies approach to organising teams that came with an impressive estimated cost reduction.

#teamtopologies #conwayslaw

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innovation and user satisfaction. By thoughtfully designing our organizations, we pave the way for products that truly resonate with our users. Here's to building not just with code, but with purpose. 🌟

#EngineeringLeadership #UserCentricDesign #ConwaysLaw #OrganizationalDesign #TechInnovation

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Whether you're looking to understand your current organizational architecture or aiming to transform it for better efficiency and alignment with user needs, this post is your go-to guide. 🛠️🎯

How does Conway’s law affect your organization?

#ConwaysLaw #OrganizationalDesign

Shades of Conway's Law

The slide deck of my ScanAgile24 talk “Shades of Conway’s Law” is available online.
The chocolates are gone, though. Sorry for that 🤷

Thank you to the attendees for your truly kind feedback and telling me it was such a good presentation ☺️

#scanagile24 #conwayslaw

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#ConwaysLaw at full spectrum :)