The document discusses several topics including Conway's Law, Scrum, requirements, and people. It notes that according to Conway's Law, organizational structures will be reflected in system designs. It also discusses how adding people to a project with set technology and requirements can make it more complicated. Several quotes are included about freedom, idiocy, and handling reality properly.

1. JEFF HACKERT| ENGINEERING MANAGER
CONWAY’S LAW

3. KEN SCHWABER:
SCRUM

4. TECHNOLOGY!!
KEN SCHWABER:
SCRUM

5. TECHNOLOGY
REQUIREMENTS
!!
!!
KEN SCHWABER:
SCRUM

6. TECHNOLOGY
KEN SCHWABER:
SCRUM
REQUIREMENTS
PEOPLE
!!
!!
!

7. TECHNOLOGY
KEN SCHWABER:
SCRUM
REQUIREMENTS
PEOPLE
!!
!!
!
A project with certain
technology and agreed upon
functionality is now
categorized as complicated
rather than simple because
of the people vector.

8. CONWAY’S LAW
Organizations which design systems … are
constrained to produce designs which are
copies of the communication structures of
these organizations

9. RIGHT
template "/etc/readme.txt" do
source "readme.txt.erb"
variables(:one => one,
:two => two,
:three => three)
end

10. RIGHT
template "/etc/readme.txt" do
source "readme.txt.erb"
variables(:one => one,
:two => two,
:three => three)
end
WRONG
template "/etc/readme.txt" do
source "readme.txt.erb"
variables(
:one => one,
:two => two,
:three => three
)
end

11. Idiots

13. Things get very clear
when you’re cornered.
- CHOGYAM TRUNGPA RINPOCHE

14. RIGHTNESS
The right to be right is irrelevant;
it's only the right to be wrong that
makes you free.
- Peopleware

15. RIGHTNESS
The right to be right is irrelevant;
it's only the right to be wrong that
makes you free.
- Peopleware

16. DUMB I will never do anything dumb on purpose.
– J. McCarthy

17. As human beings, we are basically awake and we can understand reality.
Wearenotenslavedbyourlives;wearefree.Beingfree…
means simply that we have a body and a mind, and
WE CAN UPLIFT OURSELVES IN ORDER TO WORK
WITH REALITY IN A DIGNIFIED AND HUMOROUS WAY
…we can handle our universe properly and fully…
- CHOGYAM TRUNGPA RINPOCHE

18. BOOKS
Emotional Intelligence – Dan Goleman
Conscious Business – Fred Koffman
Words of My Perfect Teacher – Patrul Rimpoche
Peopleware – Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister
Way of the Bodhisattva – Shantideva
Software for Your Head – Jim McCarthy
Search Inside Yourself – Chade-Meng Tan
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