Be very interested in any thoughts of your.

Finger slipped on laptop

that would a case of great minds thinking alike :-)

I been trying to use it with some MBA students on an MIS module. Some of them loved it and I think some of them haven’t got their head around it.

Be very interested in any though

http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2006/03/13/blogs-and-organisational-structures-and-conways-law/

I had seen the original paper and for sure it is likely to have influenced my thinking. I was trying to extend the point I guess, to cover far more than communications, and to bring it into amanagement theory context.

I will read your post and follow the link to the Dikel and Kane paper, and will revert with opinions. Thanks.

So posted the following to my blog – naccent and rebuilding

“CONWAYS LAW [1968] “organizations which [sic] design systems…are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.”

THis requires a longer and more detailed post but I’d suggest two links

*The original statement of Conway’s Law
How Do Committees Invent?
by Melvin E. Conway

* And the very explicit drawing of the implications for enterprise architecture in
Conway’s Law Revisited: Successfully Aligning Enterprise Architecture
Date: May 1, 2002 By David Dikel, David Kane. Article is provided courtesy of Prentice Hall PTR.

Be interested in your opinions

Regards

Dermot