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5 questions in Conway's Law.

  1. Conway's Law advanced

    A B2B marketplace splits into supplier-onboarding, catalogue, pricing and fulfilment services. Eighteen months later every meaningful feature requires all four teams. What does Conway's Law say happened, and what are the two available fixes?

    1 min answer conways-lawmoglixb2bteam-topology
  2. Conway's Law intermediate

    Two teams own two deployables: a reader-facing API and a mobile backend-for-frontend that calls it. They are merged into one team of nine with one backlog and one standup. What happens to the interface between those two services over the next two quarters, and what would you do about it now?

    3 min answer conways-lawteam-topologiesservice-boundariesfitness-functions
  3. Conway's Law beginner Multiple choice

    Two teams report to the same manager and share one backlog. One sits in Sydney and one in Lisbon with about 60 minutes of working overlap a day. What shape does the interface between their two components take over the next year?

    3 min answer conways lawcoordinationtime zonesinterfaces
  4. Conway's Law advanced

    What happens if an edge platform's configuration system is built by three teams - one owning the config language, one owning global propagation, one owning the edge runtime - and each team ships on its own schedule with its own API? Predict the architectural consequence.

    2 min answer conways-laworganisationedgefastly
  5. Conway's Law advanced

    You design service boundaries along domain lines. They cut across three existing teams. What happens and what do you do?

    2 min answer organisationboundariesconway