The tools worked. Code gets written faster. The backlog didn’t move. Here’s where the velocity went, and a three-question audit you can run on your own org in an afternoon.
“You’re already 80% of the way to having that design approved”
Five unscripted moments with James Touhey, Head of Design at AnyTeam: the mechanism, the craft it protects, and why building first gets designs approved.
“Even as head of design, you’re not in control of shipping anything”
James Touhey has led design for 20+ years. At AnyTeam, he now ships his own fixes as PRs his engineers review. His story, in his words.
Your team can build a feature in a day. Shipping it still takes a quarter.
The bottleneck was never writing the code. It’s the queue every change has to funnel through. AI made generating code roughly ten times faster. Shipping barely moved. That gap is the whole story, and it’s costing you more than you think….