Last January, our product room in Iqaluit had one rule taped above the deployment calendar: no feature leaves before the reason for it can be spoken plainly. That sentence cut three releases from the month, but it also saved the map editor from becoming a shelf of clever, unused controls.
Cold light shows the edges
When a team stops treating speed as proof of care, the rough blocks become easier to see. We spent two weeks redrawing a single handoff between research and engineering, then shipped a smaller change that support could explain before lunch.