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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
Resource: Time
Example: Time Stakeholders
Resource: Money
Example: Money Stakeholders
Resource: Access
Plot Twist! Consultants and 3rd Parties

Social Network Theory and Conway

Architecture as a Picture of the Org
Not About Org Charts
Intro to Social Networks (not the Facebook kind!)
Collecting Data to Build the Network Model
Example: Zattos Engineering
Top Down Resolutions
Strategies for Shortening Network Links
Overlaying Incentives on the Network Graph
Spending Patterns as Incentive Signal
Which Teams Spend Competitively?
Which Teams Need to Have Aligned Incentives?
Bonus: Network Economics Lectures

Worksheets

Stakeholder Map.pdf
Network Graphs.pdf