Why delivery speed is constrained less by code—and more by the coordination required to move between teams
System diagrams lie by omission.
They show services, databases, and APIs. Clean boundaries. Clear ownership. Ordered flows. They do not show the work required to move between them. They do not show the coordination between teams. The sequencing constraints. The waiting. They do not show the system as it operates.
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