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Any organization that designs a system (defined more broadly here than just information systems) will inevitably produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure.

• Also sometimes phrased as you ship your organization
• The above version comes from here
  • www.melconway.com/Home/Committees_Paper.html

  • To save you the trouble of wading through 45 paragraphs to find the thesis, I'll give an informal version of it to you now: Any organization that designs a system...

• Original here
  • www.melconway.com/Home/pdf/committees.pdf

  • organizations which design systems (in the broad sense used here) are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.