Conway's Law
Conway's Law prov. The rule that the organization of the
software and the organization of the software team will be
congruent; originally stated as "If you have four groups working
on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler".
The law was named after Melvin Conway, an early proto-hacker who
wrote an assembler for the Burroughs 220 called SAVE. The name
`SAVE' didn't stand for anything; it was just that you lost fewer
card decks and listings because they all had SAVE written on them.
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