neo01.com Decoding Digital Anomalies
  • Blog
  • Tools
  • About
🌐 įŽ€|įš
AIArchitectureCybersecurityDevelopmentMisc
Blog Tools About
Categories
AIArchitectureCybersecurityDevelopmentMisc
🌐 įŽ€|įš

Conway's Law

New The Quality Ceiling: What Software Quality Means Once Your Application Has 100+ Developers
Aug 1, 2026 Management

The Quality Ceiling: What Software Quality Means Once Your Application Has 100+ Developers

Software quality stops being a property of code and becomes a property of seams between teams somewhere between 50 and 200 developers. This post names the four failure modes unique to that regime — Conway's-law drift, cognitive-load overflow, federated quality, incentive inversion — and closes with a manager's playbook: what to measure (the four DORA metrics), what to change (four ≤90-day interventions), what to stop measuring (four counter-metrics inversely correlated with quality), and the one question that separates an organisation that is improving quality from one that is merely paying for the appearance of it.

Software QualityEngineering ManagementDORA
Quick Links
AboutTools
QR code full size Open short URL
Connect
Terms | Cookie Policy © 2026 Neo Alienson. All rights reserved.