Conway's Law
Conway's Law holds that a system's architecture mirrors the communication structure of the organization that built it, guiding structural design without addressing purpose, resourcing, or task assignment.
Melvin Conway, 1968
The origin of the framework, as the directory records it. The mark grades the origin, not this page.
The directory entry this score was read from. Umbrex is a consultancy network; its summary is the reference, not a primary source.
Scored against the twelve cells, it loads two: Structure and Coordination. The other ten it leaves to you. None of Composition, Evidence, or Mastery is among them, which is the usual result in this directory: the questions an agent in the loop raises first are the ones the literature answers least.
This is not a summary of the framework. Umbrex has one; the link under Sources goes there.
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