Please read this week:
Herbsleb, J. D. and Grinter, R. E. 1999. Splitting the organization and integrating the code: Conway's law revisited. In Proceedings of the 21st international Conference on Software Engineering (Los Angeles, California, United States, May 16 - 22, 1999). International Conference on Software Engineering. IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, 85-95.
There are a couple reasons for reading this paper. For one, I want you to understand Conway's law (the relation between the structure of a software system and the structure of the organization that creates it), and in general the way technical issues in software design are tangled up with social and management issues. In addition, as software development is increasingly global, the cultural and communication issues discussed in this paper will become more and more important.
You should be able to download the paper from the ACM server, using the link above, when you are connected through the University. Let me know if you have problems with that.
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