Conway’s law is a belief which states that organizations design systems which reflect their own communication structure; this ideology was named after a computer programmer named Melvin Conway who introduced the idea in 1967. 

The law is based on the idea that in order for a software to function properly, multiple authors must communicate with each other; this therefore means that the software interface structure of a system will have a reflection on the social boundaries of the organization that produces it, which makes it challenging.