Laws of Software Engineering · Pattern
Pattern
Dunbar's Number
A person can maintain about 150 stable relationships.
How to use it. Above about 150, you cannot run on personal relationships. You need clear interfaces, written process, and platform thinking.
How it gets misused. Quoted as a hard ceiling on team or company size. It marks a point of transition, and you can grow past it.
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Pattern
Team Topologies
Four kinds of team (working on a stream of value, building a platform, helping others, or owning something complicated). Three ways teams can interact (working together, providing a service, or helping someone learn).
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Pattern
Conway's Law
The shape of your software ends up matching the shape of how your teams talk to each other.
Clusters
- The Team Design cluster - How to organise people for software work.