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The argument, mapped

The whole of The Bottleneck Is Never the Stack, second edition, on a single page: one central claim, the five parts, and the Operating Kit that runs it. A bird’s-eye view of the book before you read it, and a map to find your way back to once you have.

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Mind map of The Bottleneck Is Never the Stack, second edition. A central node branches into the five parts, from the new bottleneck through the system, the practice, and the enterprise operating model to the bargain, plus the Operating Kit appendix and companion.
The Bottleneck Is Never the Stack · Brookfield Press · vinny.dev/book

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Six branches

  1. 01

    Part I · The New Bottleneckthe diagnosis

    The frame is the bottleneck · Execution is cheap · The dark factory · Trust is earned by the system

  2. 02

    Part II · The Systemthe machinery

    The agentic SDLC · The Context Spine · The spec is the product · Spec, standards, specialists

  3. 03

    Part III · The Practicethe loop at work

    Vague request to governed release · The confident defect · The intent chain · Pipeline-first

  4. 04

    Part IV · From One Team to the Enterprisethe operating model

    Day 31 · Where you actually are · Redesign the work · Structure follows evidence · Roles and apprenticeship · Governance that ships · The scorecard · The roadmap

  5. 05

    Part V · The Bargainthe honest close

    The subsidy is ending · The full costs surface · The bill lands on the people building the systems

  6. 06

    The Operating Kitappendix & companion

    Twenty-four artifacts · The companion workbook, Putting the Book to Work · Five working modes · Every session ends in a decision

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