User:RobLa-WMF/CBCI

Consensus-based conceptual integrity (CBCI) an attempt to satisfy the following simultaneously: Conventional wisdom suggests that these two are mutually exclusive. Fred Brooks wrote in 1995: "Having a system architect is the most important single step toward conceptual integrity...after teaching a software engineering laboratory more than 20 times, I came to insist that student teams as small as four people choose a manager, and a separate architect."
 * Have a system with conceptual integrity
 * Develop Wikimedia's site software by the consensus of the developers working on it

An efficient and effective CBCI process would allow us to defy conventional wisdom, ensuring our site software still maintains conceptual integrity despite the lack of an authoritarian central architect.