I wrote about how we used Conway's Law to fix legacy architecture

"You either die before Product Market Fit or live long enough to see the effects of Conway’s Law in your system architecture."

This is what I ended up saying to a colleague in one of my conversations.

This was in a context of refactoring a legacy system where we used Conway's Law as a lever instead of thinking of it as a constraint and inevitability. Without an external measure, software entropy will kick in and systems will succumb to it.

But if you're thrown into such a system or you inherit it, how do you navigate refactoring of such systems? You can't fight Conway's Law, instead use it as a lever to refactor legacy systems.

I finally ended up writing about this. Have a read.