Today we had a debate on Conway's Law. Following my new passion, the chronicle of software development I definitely need to read "How Do Committees Invent?" by Mel Conway. The interesting thought: should software reflect the organizational structure of the client? And since effectively does reflect the organization of the implementor, has in-house software better architecture?

Provocative enough since we know in-house software is not build with care..

Conway - We shall see in detail later that the very act of organizing a design team means that certain design decisions have already been made, explicitly or otherwise. Given any design team organization, there is a class of design alternatives which cannot be effectively pursued by such an organization because the necessary communication paths do not exist. Therefore, there is no such thing as a design group which is both organized and unbiased.