Why Your Engineering Team Is Slow (It's the Codebase, Not the People)

A client&rsquo;s team spent a week adding a CSV export to their admin panel. Two engineers, clear requirements, maybe a day of actual work. The rest of the time went to understanding existing code well enough to change it safely. The codebase makes every task take longer than it should, and that overhead never shows up in a dashboard or a sprint report.&#xA;The team slows down. Every time,…