Anarchy: A Solution to Software Development Organizations? with Andrew Harmel-Law

“Patterns of Anarchy” is a collection of writings published in 1966. Andrew came to it because a) Christopher Alexander quotes from it in “A Pattern Language” and b) because as a consultant and developer they are interested in different patterns of organizing.

What interested them most about this book was the section “Constructive Anarchism: Alternative Communities and Programs”. This covers the how of anarchist organization.

They will share some of the most interesting insights from their perspective as a student of socio-technical organization design. Sometimes they’ll add some commentary. And of course the question is how it relates to software engineering.

Links

• Andrew Harmel-Law “Scaling the Practice of Architecture, Conversationally” at MartinFowler.com (bit.ly/scaling-arch-mf)

• Book Andrew Harmel-Law “Facilitating Software Architecture” (facilitatingsoftwarearchitecture.com)

• Andrew’s slides from Agile meet Architecture (docs.google.com/presentation/d/193azugEYp0HGyM…)

• Book Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer: No Rules Rules (norulesrules.com)

• SE Radio 253: Fred George on Developer Anarchy (se-radio.net/2016/03/se-radio-episode-253-fred…)