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Location PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 4: KEYSTROKES AND BRUSHSTROKES Taste, Wars, and Hierarchy of Values

"Organizations that design systems are constrained to produce designs reflecting their communication structures."

Conway's original paper states the relationship in terms of organizational communication structures, not a literal one-to-one copy of the formal organization chart.

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Source title How Do Committees Invent?
Source authors Melvin E. Conway
Source year 1968
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