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When Engineers Become Bottlenecks
In this episode of Tech Leadership with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore a counterintuitive problem: senior engineers who become bottlenecks despite their brilliance. They examine a real case from a Series B fintech startup where a single principal engineer was the sole approver for production deployments, causing delays that added $2.3 million in opportunity cost over 18 months. Lucas explains the 'truck factor' concept and how to measure it, while Luna shares a story from her own experience where a team used bus factor tracking to speed up releases by 30 percent. They discuss practical…
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