Your roadmap isn’t delayed by complexity. It’s delayed because of coupling.
Shared services seem efficient. Centralized platforms ensure consistency. Reusable components help cut duplication.
Then reality hits.
One team waits for another. A simple feature requires three approvals. Your fastest engineers spend their time in coordination meetings instead of delivering code.
Dependencies not only create technical constraints but also cause organizational bottlenecks. Each shared service turns into a queue. Each integration point becomes a negotiation. Every coupling requires synchronization-and synchronization leads to waiting.
Teams optimize locally while the system degrades globally. They build workarounds. They duplicate secretly. They stop asking for help because asking takes longer than hacking.
Autonomy isn’t about creating silos. It’s about removing the structural barriers that prevent teams from working together.
The best architectures are not judged by elegance or reuse. They’re judged by how quickly independent teams can deliver without approval.
What would change if your teams could ship without cross-team dependencies?