> The distance to decision makers and the number of developers working on a project is clearly and unambiguously the issue that is the best predictor of future problems with a code base.
The original paper on which this blog post is based is actually an explicit experimental test of Conway's law (and it's also a paper which happens to have found significant validity for Conway's law in the data they analyzed).
> Another shocking discovery for me personally, is that the only one that I've actually used myself - code coverage - has the lowest recall. In other words, almost all the issues it predicted turned out to not be real issues.
