What Is the AT Protocol? A Developer's Mental Model
AT Protocol explained for software developers: identity, repos, relays, AppViews, and lexicons, plus the trade-offs that matter when you build on it.
What Is the Hourglass of Uncertainty?
The cone of uncertainty narrows as projects progress. The hourglass of uncertainty says it flips again at launch. Learn which one your project is on.
How Do I Decode Software Deployments?
Read deployed software as a fossil record of organizational structure: service boundaries, API contracts, pipelines, and runbooks all carry team imprints.
How Do I Diagnose Software Delivery Friction?
Use git history and the org chart to find the modules where Conway’s Law is driving merge conflicts, slow reviews, and shipping delays.
How Do I Pitch Org Design for Better Architecture?
Use Conway’s Law to connect architecture conversations to organizational design, with concrete talking points for architects, leaders, teams, and communities.
How Do I Serve Organizational Needs With Conway's Law?
Use Conway’s Law as a diagnostic to spot healthy vs broken team-to-code alignment, then pick the organizational change that fixes the right problem.
How Do I Smooth Platform Team Friction?
Reduce friction between a platform team and the product teams that depend on it using measurable thresholds and three communication-cost levers.
How Do I Use Conway's Law?
An index of five focused guides on applying Conway’s Law: smoothing platform friction, serving the org, diagnosing delivery, decoding software deployments, and pitching a better architectural design.
What Is Conway's Law?
Conway’s Law says software mirrors the organization that built it. Learn the mechanism, the inverse Conway maneuver, and why team shape is architecture.
How Do I Measure AI Software Development Tool Usage?
A tutorial: run a Python tool to inventory AI coding tool spend, assign owners, and set a token-cost-per-merged-PR baseline you can defend in a budget review.
