Scaling a Technology Business is about Unscaling Technical Debt
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Title matches the claim: scaling is really about two kinds of technical debt — quick implementation debt and the debt that forces constant rewrites as product evolves. The concrete levers are schedules, roadmaps, cadence and clear role separation (team lead versus engineering manager). Surprising data points include a correlation that spaces users earn more and a platform scale of ~40 million monthly users. The practical prescription is to move along an agile–waterfall continuum as requirements firm and to treat predictability correlates to quality.
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- 0:00Start
- 0:12Scaling Software Development via the Agile/Waterfall Continuum
- 4:09Well, actually...there are two kinds of Technical Debt
- 5:16Definition of Technical Debt
- 8:06Key to Scaling Your Applications
- 8:35Let's Talk about Software Process
