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When the Unstoppable Force of Growth Meets the Immovable Object of Control

The Agile Manager

You create a new software application. It grows, rapidly. And it keeps growing. You add tools. You add people. You add roles and structure. You split the codebase into different technical components. You divide teams. You add environments. You make rules for merging and deploying. One day, you look round and realize you have 20 times the staff but deliver only a fraction of what you used to when you had only a handful of people.