For reference (as per Wikipedia):

Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization’s communication structure.

— Melvin E. Conway

Imagine interpreting that as advice on how you should try to design things, lol.

Tbf, I think most of the post is just typical LinkedIn fluff, but I didn’t want to take the poor fellow out of context.

  • fubo@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 year ago

    Sure, show me the manager who wants to subordinate their own career and status to the good of the users, and has the managerial competence to design a team accordingly. (Okay, Meredith Whittaker might be one. Name another.)

    Otherwise, y’all still best off drawing projects out of the noisy nonsense anarchy of open source.

    • thanks_shakey_snakeOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      I feel like you’re probably making a very good point but I can’t quite tell what it is.

      • fubo@lemmy.world
        4·
        1 year ago

        Managers typically have local incentives that lead away from doing good things with their control of organizational architecture.

        • thanks_shakey_snakeOP
          1·
          1 year ago

          Oh-- Yeah that IS a good point. I’m not an anti-manager person, but I do think that many managers are incentivized to perturb their orgs superstitiously, with almost obligate overconfidence.