Cadence to the Stars, part one of a two-part series If you can find one, convince her to work for you and keep her happy and productive (but I repeat myself).
More specifically, development organizations tend toward ever-lengthening cycle times just as much as organizations in general tend toward bureaucracy.
In software, the production rate is the iteration rate.
In part two, the Process Equation, we will look at overcoming the forces that tend to push software engineering organizations toward higher cycle times and lower cadence.