The CTO Substack

The CTO Substack

The CTO's Ripple Effect

The hidden pattern that connects the Agile Manifesto to systems thinking, and why it matters for every CTO

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Etienne de Bruin
Jan 31, 2025
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It's late 2019, and I'm staring at my screen at 11 PM on a Tuesday, reading yet another enthusiastic email from Sarah, our biggest client. "Just one more feature," she writes, her excitement practically jumping off the screen. "This would be a game-changer for us."

My small development team of five is already stretched thin. Our Kanban board shows a trou…

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