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by vincent-manis
1626 days ago
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Probably the clearest example of Conway's Law I ever saw was when I was consulting for a dev team whose product used a complex database. They were facing a very stiff deadline, which I was there to help them achieve. Suddenly, one of the server processes started to fail, though it had been working fine up to then. After a fair amount of panic (at this point in the dev cycle pretty much anything unexpected triggered panic), the cause was found: the DBA had made a small schema change. Knowledge of the change didn't propagate to the dev team because the DBA sat on the extreme other side of the cube farm. |
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