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The CTO's Drowning Team

When Your Star Developer Takes Three Weeks to Ship a Button

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Etienne de Bruin
Jun 26, 2025
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The Consortium for Information & Software Quality (CISQ) published a sobering report in 2022: poor software quality cost the US economy $2.41 trillion, with accumulated technical debt reaching $1.52 trillion1. These aren't abstract numbers on a spreadsheet. They represent careers destroyed, startups shuttered, and brilliant engineers updating their Linke…

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