I think I read a condensed version of "Soul of a New Machine" in a Reader's Digest when I was 10 or 11, and I wanted to become a CPU developer afterwards. Well, I still read every article about CPU microarchitectures that I can find.
replyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
replyApplies both to software as well as hardware.
Oh, absolutely.
replySoftware products (which is where I spent most of my career) absolutely reflects the org that built it...
It had almost become my hobby to do a reverse-mapping of sorts and understand an org that built some software - and with it, all the org's dysfunctions would become obvious, based largely on how the various modules communicate with each other.
Have seen that in numerous autonomous vehicle stacks (among other SW) I've worked with :-/