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🗓️ 7 April 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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There are a handful of common problems organizations encounter on their journey as a scale-up, where some of the practices that enabled them to flourish as a start-up produce a level of technical debt that threatens to impede future growth. In this episode, we explore how to tackle some of those bottlenecks.
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0:00.0 | Hi, everyone. Welcome to ThoughtWorks Technology Podcast. I'm Jamek, one of your regular co-hosts, and I'm here today with Alexei, my other co-hosts. Hi, Alexei. |
0:14.6 | Hello, Jambach, and hello everyone. Pleasure to be here with you. Great. We are joined by two of our colleagues, Martin Fowler, |
0:22.2 | and Tim Cochran today to talk about bottlenecks of scale-ups, the challenges that organizations |
0:29.3 | that go through hypergrowth phase that slows them down in their growth and in their journey. |
0:35.3 | Welcome, Martin. Welcome, Tim. Thank you. |
0:38.3 | Thank you. |
0:39.3 | All right. |
0:40.3 | Let's start with you, Tim. |
0:41.3 | What has brought you to this point to talk about and write about skill ups, butternags? |
0:50.3 | Sure. |
0:51.3 | So essentially at Fort Works, we have been, I, we have been doing a lot of this work. |
0:58.8 | I've, over my, my journey, I've been with Fort Works for over 15 years. |
1:04.7 | And through that, you know, I worked through a number of different enterprises, but also a number of different companies that are scaling, |
1:15.7 | like quite significantly. So they're moving from being, being a startup to becoming, you know, |
1:25.1 | a larger company going through their IPO. |
1:29.0 | And we've noticed, obviously, working with enterprises and scale-ups, |
1:36.4 | there's very different kind of approaches that you might apply, right? |
1:39.6 | Some of the techniques may be similar, but they may be applied in different ways to different |
1:47.6 | extents. |
1:49.8 | So within in Fortworks, we have a number of different scale-up teams that are currently working |
1:58.3 | with these kind of companies in the different phases. |
2:01.7 | And they do work differently. |
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