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Why Your Engineering Team Needs a Congestion Budget
Episode 22 of Tech Leadership with Fexingo explores the concept of a congestion budget for engineering teams — a powerful tool to prevent bottlenecks before they form. Lucas and Luna unpack a real case: a mid-stage fintech company that used congestion budgets to cut deployment wait times by 60 percent and unblock feature velocity. They discuss how to measure congestion using cycle time, work-in-progress limits, and queue depth, and why this approach beats traditional capacity planning. The episode dives into implementation tactics: setting budget thresholds, making trade-offs visible, and…
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