%0 Generic %1 paper:aranda:2008 %A Aranda, Jorge %A Easterbrook, Steve %A Wilson, Greg %D 2008 %K 2008 conways-law organisation software structure %T Observations on Conway's Law in Scientific Computing %U http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~jaranda/pubs/Aranda08-STC-final.pdf %X We describe the structure of organizations and products of scientific computing projects using Conway’s Law as a lens to guide our observations. Our organizational findings include highly unconventional work structures, loose project membership and roles, low team coordination and awareness, and the dependence on liaisons for geographically distributed development. These characteristics are reflected in the ambiguous goals and requirements, organic growth, and loose boundaries of the resulting products.

@misc{paper:aranda:2008, abstract = {We describe the structure of organizations and products of scientific computing projects using Conway’s Law as a lens to guide our observations. Our organizational findings include highly unconventional work structures, loose project membership and roles, low team coordination and awareness, and the dependence on liaisons for geographically distributed development. These characteristics are reflected in the ambiguous goals and requirements, organic growth, and loose boundaries of the resulting products.}, added-at = {2008-07-08T14:57:38.000+0200}, author = {Aranda, Jorge and Easterbrook, Steve and Wilson, Greg}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/218c31d82aeb94284fe1d1fcf8bb6447d/mschuber}, howpublished = {1st Workshop on Socio-Technical Congruence (STC), at the 30th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'08), Leipzig, Germany, 10 May 2008}, interhash = {bb3aeddb05c66d70ce6a5b7a2b6fc62c}, intrahash = {18c31d82aeb94284fe1d1fcf8bb6447d}, keywords = {2008 conways-law organisation software structure}, month = May, timestamp = {2008-09-09T12:29:51.000+0200}, title = {Observations on Conway's Law in Scientific Computing}, url = {http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~jaranda/pubs/Aranda08-STC-final.pdf}, year = 2008 }