Thought of the day.

Conway’s law is an adage named after computer programmer Melvin Conway, who introduced us to the idea back in 1968, yes they had computers back then kids. It states that:
“organisations which design systems … are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organisations”.

What do we do about it?

DevOps. While devops is a portmanteau of development and operations, it is not another team. The last thing our IT family needs is yet another functional silo.

DevOps is a set of protocols and practice’s that stresses the importance of communication, collaboration and integration between the software development teams and the rest of our information technology professionals.

We need to start thinking beyond our IDE, we need to start thinking beyond our kanban boards and our service management systems, we need to increase our collaboration and our communication, and we need to make sure that we never create a monster like shared dependency again.