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Melvin ConwayMelvin Conway was an early hacker who coined what's now known as Conway's Law: "Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations."
Conway wrote an assembler for the Burroughs 220 called SAVE. The name SAVE was not an acronym, but a feature: programmers lost fewer card decks because they all had SAVE written on them.
Conway's LawConway's Law is an adage named after computer programmer Melvin Conway, who introduced the idea in 1968. It concerns the structure of organizations and the corresponding structure of systems (particularly computer software) designed by those organizations. In various versions, Conway's Law states:
- Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
- If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler.
Despite jocular usage and jocular derivative "laws," Conway's law was not intended as a joke or a Zen koan, but as a valid sociological observation. It is a consequence of the fact that two software modules A and B cannot interface correctly with each other unless the designer and implementer of A communicate with the designer and implementer of B each other. Thus the interface structure of a software system necessarily will show a congruence with the social structure of the organization that produced it.
There is also Cheatham's Amendment to Conway's Law, named after Tom Cheatham.
- If a group of N persons implements a COBOL compiler, there will be N-1 passes. Someone in the group has to be the manager.
Conway's Law is sometimes reported as a different adage:
- In every organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. That person must be fired.
See also
- List of adages named after people
External link
- [http://www.melconway.com/research/committees.html How Do Committees Invent], Conway's original article from Datamation, 1968.
- [http://wiki.cs.uiuc.edu/cs427/Conway's+Law Examples of Conway's Law in action]
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