Conway’s Law and Ray Ozzie
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Coincidences are sometimes amazing. I was really impressed this week by reading a long article about Ray Ozzie, the new chief software architect in Microsoft. That was of course Bill Gates’s title before he left. I found so much of value in that article, The Man Who Would Change Microsoft: Ray Ozzie’s Vision for Connected Software. I rarely like to write a post that just points somewhere else but it would have been worth it.
Then UIE BrainSparks, one of my regular reads, had an item on Conway’s Law. This discussed a longer post by Karl Long, which covers more on Conway’s Law. Conway’s Law was devised in 1968 by Melvin Conway. It reads as follows:
Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization’s communication structure.
That’s exactly the theme that Ray Ozzie was emphasizing in his vision. Particularly as the Mobile Web takes off and we all try to figure out how the Mobile Web and the Desktop Web should interact, Ray Ozzie is raising the right concerns within Microsoft. Google doesn’t have a lock on this expanded cyberspace. Perhaps this is where Microsoft can do an end-run around Google.
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April 6th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
Conway’s Law and Ray Ozzie
Ray Ozzie will be trying to ensure connectedness among all the impressive Microsoft resources. This is a powerful strategy as Microsoft and Google battle for the Mobile web.
April 6th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
Conway’s Law and Ray Ozzie
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April 7th, 2007 at 7:48 am
[...] In the Mobile Web, Google has as yet not managed to pull it all together. The Telcos are powerful actors in this space and no clear alliances or relationships have yet been manifest. Meanwhile in Microsoft, Ray Ozzie, the chief software architect, is intent on connecting all their considerable resources to ensure Microsoft is delivering what customers need, and that includes the Mobile Web customers. Two recent initiatives perhaps are harbingers of future success. [...]