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Detail of Marcel Duchamp's 'Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2' (1912), oil on canvas. Philadelphia Museum of Art.

The Next Bottleneck

Your engineering team just got faster. Congratulations! You’ve just moved the bottleneck. It’s not in engineering anymore. It’s downstream, in the space between what engineering can ship and what the business can absorb. Nobody is asking: faster for whom?

A closeup of a fire alarm on a wall. The fire alarm has text which says “FIRE. TO SOUND ALARM PULL DOWN”

Mind the blast radius

Not all work has the same risk profile, and to balance speed and safety, your process must adapt.