What Conway's Law Actually Means
What Conway Actually Said
Module 3, Lesson 2
What you'll learn
You can distinguish between Conway's Law as a slogan and Conway's Law as a precise mechanism - and use the precise version to explain why a specific organizational intervention failed to produce the expected architectural outcome.
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