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How Systems Design Themselves
A given system can be divided into a number of subsystems. Conway gives the example of the public transportation system, which consists on the top level of buses, trains, planes, etc. On the next level an airplane can be split up into subsystems for structure, propulsion, … and so on.
To illustrate this concept the author draws the following picture. The circles represent a (sub)system and the lines the connections between them. (…)
The system and its design group are related. For a given subsystem x there will be a design group (X) which designed this subsystem. The same holds true for the connections between subsystems (eg. x and y). If they are connected, we know that the design teams X and Y had to communicate at some point in time to design the interface.
So the design of the finished system is dependent on the preexisting design of the design group.
photo { Tony Stamolis }
