The author challenges the common engineer complaint that meetings hinder code deployment, suggesting that organizational overhead may actually be a response to prevent an overload of changes during deployment. The essay explores how increasing overhead can negatively impact productivity and lead to a cycle of less getting done. The key takeaway is that to increase the number of changes successfully deployed, it is necessary to expand deployment capacity rather than reducing overhead. This unique perspective on reverse causality in organizational dynamics offers a thought-provoking insight into how to improve deployment efficiency.
https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/slow-deployment-causes-meetings