Conway's Law
Discussed in The Mythical Man-Month. Layered organizations produce software with layered architectures, etc. Conway's original formulation in 1968 was: If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a four-pass compiler
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition) by Frederick P. Brooks
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