Conway’s Mirror
“Show me how a team talks, and I’ll show you its code.”
Drag nine people into teams and watch the software redraw itself. Three levels ask for a target architecture.
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Sheet 02 · Org design
Conway’s Mirror
Arrange the team. Watch the software rearrange itself.
Sheet02 / Conway
DrawnE. Murphy
Scale1 team : 1 service
“Any organization that designs a system will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization’s communication structure.”Melvin Conway, 1968
“Show me how a team talks, and I’ll show you its code.”Enaho Murphy
Target architecture
A · The team
Drag people between teams, or tap a person then tap a team. Keyboard: Enter to pick, arrows to choose a team, Enter to drop, Esc to cancel.
B · The systemredraws live
API callInternalTangle
- Services
- 0
- Cross-team calls
- 0
- Tangles
- 0
Can each team ship alone?