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Wondering that this principle is not part of this collection. Conway Law as I understand states that engineers way of communicating with each other resembles communication structure of the engineered system. Or with the official definition:

[O]rganizations which design systems (in the broad sense used here) are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.

— Melvin E. Conway, How Do Committees Invent?

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