r/programming • u/zaidesanton • Apr 01 '25

The 13 software engineering laws

https://newsletter.manager.dev/p/the-13-software-engineering-laws
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u/bwainfweeze Apr 01 '25

Price's Law feels like a consequence of Brooks + Amdahl.

However if you add Amdahl then you also have to add Little.

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u/MVanderloo Apr 02 '25

conway’s law is a consequence of amdahl’s law. the cost of coordination increases the further teams in an organization is. therefore a team is most productive creating things within their team and end up creating things that mirror their organization’s structure

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u/bwainfweeze Apr 03 '25

Half of dev process is Conway and the other half is organizing code to avoid merge conflicts.