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Infrequently Noted · Aug 11, 2025

How Do Committees Fail To Invent?

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Mel Conway's seminal paper " How Do Committees Invent? " (PDF) is commonly paraphrased as Conway's Law : Organizations which design systems are (broadly) constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations. This is deep organisational insight that engineering leaders ignore at their peril, and everyone who delivers code for a living benefits from…

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