Engineering Coordination Tax: Trivial Features Take Months Due to Process Drag
In software organizations, technically simple features routinely take months because of approval chains, handoff queues, and cross-team dependencies — not technical difficulty. The person closest to the work has no visibility into what is blocking them or how long the queue ahead of them is. This coordination overhead compounds silently, consuming a majority of delivery time without appearing in any sprint metric.
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