How to get out of the tech debt bottleneck

3 years ago martinfowler.com

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In its early days, a startup searches for a good product-market fit. As we've done this work, we've noticed common bottlenecks, and learned approaches to deal with them.

The most common scaling bottleneck we encounter is technical debt — startups regularly state that tech debt is their main impediment to growth.

The startup team attributes it to technical debt incurred due to a lack of technical investment during their growth phase.

Audit state of technical platform, sponsor initiatives in product teams and create temporary tiger teams to fix biggest technical debt

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