What is the relationship of Conway’s Law with software systems?

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I was reading about the conway law. However, I still cannot understand it and its relationship with the structure of the systems.

The provision of the law is as follows::

Any Organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will Produce a design Whose Structure is a copy of the Organization’s Communication Structure.

The point that cites that the system designer reflects the communication structure of the organization that left me confused.

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  1. How the communication structure of an organization can influence the structure of a system project, according to the law?
  2. What kinds of impacts a bad communication in the organization can cause in the processes and systems projects software?
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  • I don’t know if there’s any great article that addresses this in detail, but I like Elemar Jr.’s explanations. https://www.eximia.co/pt/2019/08/21/conways-law/

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For example, if the company separates development teams by modules from the system, empirically coding structures will be generated that reflect this working model.

After all you will have a set of classes used by the module 01 team and another set of classes used by the team handling module 02.

This takes a lot to avoid conflicts and redundant changes, but ends up generating more problems than solutions.

The best for developing software solutions is to create a communication and workflow model that allows the construction of common solutions together and the socialization of knowledge regarding improvements in them.

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