Favorite quote: "I gave my manager two copies of this book so he could read it twice as fast."

And the paper that inspired it, Melvin Conway's "How Do Committees Invent?"

http://www.melconway.com/Home/Committees_Paper.html

This is great -- I never knew about this paper but it reinforces a lot of things I learned. Namely, if you want to know how a company really works, ignore the org charts and map the systems architecture (a corollary to the author's thesis).

That it still holds true almost 50 years later is pretty amazing.