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Hacking Conway's Law

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  • 22 Lessons

Any kind of modernization, large scale migration or rearchitecting project requires you spend just as much time designing the people side of the effort in addition to the technology. Using stakeholder maps and social network theory principles you'll learn how to map architecture features to org structure and model how existing communication channels are helping or hindering the effort.
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Contents

Overview

The Legacy of Conway
    Preview

    Building to Stakeholders

    The Stakeholder Map
    • 2 mins
    • 209 MB
    Resource: Time
    • 3 mins
    • 312 MB
    Example: Time Stakeholders
    • 2 mins
    • 272 MB
    Resource: Money
    • 4 mins
    • 543 MB
    Example: Money Stakeholders
    • 3 mins
    • 311 MB
    Resource: Access
    • 4 mins
    • 454 MB
    Plot Twist! Consultants and 3rd Parties
    • 5 mins
    • 616 MB

    Social Network Theory and Conway

    Architecture as a Picture of the Org
    • 2 mins
    • 240 MB
    Not About Org Charts
    • 2 mins
    • 170 MB
    Intro to Social Networks (not the Facebook kind!)
    • 2 mins
    • 232 MB
    Collecting Data to Build the Network Model
    • 2 mins
    • 256 MB
    Example: Zattos Engineering
    • 2 mins
    • 210 MB
    Top Down Resolutions
    • 2 mins
    • 223 MB
    Strategies for Shortening Network Links
    • 5 mins
    • 614 MB
    Overlaying Incentives on the Network Graph
    • 2 mins
    • 158 MB
    Spending Patterns as Incentive Signal
    • 3 mins
    • 392 MB
    Which Teams Spend Competitively?
    • 2 mins
    • 202 MB
    Which Teams Need to Have Aligned Incentives?
    • 3 mins
    • 350 MB
    Bonus: Network Economics Lectures

      Worksheets

      Stakeholder Map.pdf
      • 276 KB
      Network Graphs.pdf
      • 277 KB