Conway’s LawAfter M. C. Escher

The systemhas your face.

Choose a team arrangement below.
The building changes to match who works together.

Try a team arrangement

Use a menu to change teams, or drag with a mouse.Use the menus to move people between teams.

The peopleWho sits together?

Amber2 people

Research
Design

Violet2 people

Interface
Services

Jade2 people

Data
Operations
discovery
experience

amber/system boundary

client
api

violet/system boundary

storage
runtime

jade/system boundary

The systemWhat grows together?

Where do the conversations go?

Choose a pair of teams to let them talk. A bridge joins the people above and their parts of the system below.

3 team boundaries.3 system boundaries.0 shared interfaces.

The resemblance is not a coincidence.