# Organizational Design

Published articles for Organizational Design.

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## Applying the Inverse Conway Manoeuvre to Existing Sociotechnical Systems

DevFeed: [Applying the Inverse Conway Manoeuvre to Existing Sociotechnical Systems](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-inverse-conway-manoeuvre-in-existing-systems-it-does-not-work-39946.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://mende.io/blog/the-inverse-conway-manoeuvre-in-existing-systems/>)

Author: tobi@techunicorn.builders (Tobias Mende)

Published: 2023-04-15T06:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Tobias Mende](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/tobias-mende.md>)

Topics: [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>), [structure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/structure.md>)

Tags: [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [collaboration-employee-happiness-software-architecture-team-topologies-technical-leadership-eng](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/collaboration-employee-happiness-software-architecture-team-topologies-technical-leadership-eng.md>), [conway-s-law](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/conway-s-law.md>), [organizational-design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/organizational-design.md>), [team-topologies](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/team-topologies.md>)

### AI overview

The article examines whether the Inverse Conway Manoeuvre can change the architecture of existing sociotechnical systems by altering team structures and communication paths. It argues that existing teams, communication paths, and system architectures create significant difficulties for this approach, unlike greenfield environments.

### Source excerpt

The Inverse Conway Manoeuvre in Existing Systems - It does not work! In 1968, Melvin E. Conway postulated a law about a connection between organizational design and system structure, which got pretty famous. The paper has the title "How Do Committees Invent?" and the law goes as follows: