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While putting together this year's Technology Radar, Conway's Law \u2014 the idea that organizations are constrained to produce systems that mirror their communication structures \u2014 was the subject of a lot of discussion. Should we fight it \u2014 by deploying the inverse conway maneuver? Or do we need to adopt a more nuanced approach and consider how we can leverage it?

In this episode of the Technology Podcast, Martin Fowler and James Lewis join hosts Birgitta B\xf6ckeler and Mike Mason to delve into Conway's Law. They explore what Conway's Law means for organizations today, how it should \u2014 and should not \u2014 be applied and why everyone working in and around software systems needs to pay close attention to it.

Read the 1968 paper (by Melvin Conway) that identified the phenomenon.