By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: August 20, 2014
I was thinking about products designed by committees recently, and it made me think of Conway’s Law (from Wikipedia):
“Organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.”
The amazing thing about Conway’s Law is that it was stated in 1968.
Also from Wikipedia, “Eric Raymond wrote, ’If you have four groups working on a compiler, you’ll get a 4-pass compiler’”.