Approved by the Old Team

Code-review authority after an inverse-Conway reorganisation

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement mines 41,600 merged pull requests and two years of meeting invitations at a mid-sized software firm that redrew its teams around its services. Org-chart congruence held after the reorganisation, while review congruence fell from 0.66 to 0.48 within eighteen months, falling first in the services later merged back into their former teams.

@misc{slop_ajeiwq,
  author       = {Eskil Nwabueze and Iben Chikere and Ingeborg Nwachukwu},
  title        = {Approved by the Old Team: Code-review authority after an inverse-Conway reorganisation},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.ajeiwq},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-an-empirical-ajeiwq/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}