Understanding how Conway’s Law reveals the link between tools, structure, and work design. Regaining control over what shapes our organizations.
Conway said that organizations that design systems always end up creating systems that resemble them, but today we should say that “Organizations end up resembling the tools they use, especially when they have not been involved in their design“.
Tools shape behavior, behavior dictates the organization of work, which becomes indisputable since “the tool does not allow us to do otherwise.”