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Conway's law

"Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations," from Melvin Conway's 1968 paper. Teams that rarely talk tend to build parts with narrow interfaces between them.

Team

In Quorum#

Not modeled yet: the Company runs one Service, the monolith, and every Team works on it. From Pre-seed you can create up to 4 Teams, each with its own policy. Each Team pays its own coordination cost, so splitting a large group raises total Dev Hours.

Brooks's law, Strangler pattern, Tech debt

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