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Bottlenecks of Scaleups: How did you get tech debt?

Martin Fowler

When it finds one it looks to grow rapidly, a phase known as a scaleup. At Thoughtworks, we've worked with many such scaleups, and our work has focused on how to help them overcome various bottlenecks that impede this growth. At this time it's growing rapidly along many dimensions: revenues, customer, headcount.

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Bottleneck #03: Product v Engineering

Martin Fowler

In the third article on the Bottlenecks of Scaleups, Rick Kick and Kennedy Collins talk about the bottleneck that occurs when friction develops between product and engineering.

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Bottlenecks of Scaleups #05: Resilience and Observability

Martin Fowler

Here is a new article in the bottlenecks of scaleups series, looking at resilience and observability. For a scaleup, excessive system downtime represents a significant bottleneck to the organization, both from the effort expended on restoring function and also from the impact of customer dissatisfaction.