Business Decision-Making

Conway’s Law: Why Your Organization’s Communication Structure Shapes the Systems You Build In 1968, computer scientist Melvin E. Conway introduced an observation that would become one of the most influential ideas in software and enterprise architecture: the systems an organization builds tend to reflect the way that organization communicates. The principle became known as Conway’s […]

One-Way vs Two-Way Door Decisions: A Better Framework for Making Business and Technology Decisions Popularized by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the “one-way door” and “two-way door” framework has become one of Amazon’s most useful principles for making decisions quickly without taking unnecessary risks. Bezos formally explained the idea in Amazon’s 2015 Shareholder Letter, distinguishing between […]