Nobody owns the direction
Three departments, three roadmaps.
We fix it: One owner of the vision. Every sprint ties back to it.
Where multi-department builds break
Six bottlenecks. One product office.
The brief is a wish list
No acceptance criteria, no definition of done.
We fix it: Wishes become specs before anyone writes code.
Priorities shift mid-sprint
Every change resets the work.
We fix it: We hold the sprint. Changes get decided before it starts.
Nobody owns quality
Until something breaks in production.
We fix it: Acceptance criteria between what was promised and what ships.
Decisions wait on one person
One week away stops three developers.
We fix it: A fixed decision rhythm, off the critical path.
Nobody knows what a release changed
It ships, the team moves on.
We fix it: Every release tied to a metric, measured before and after.
