Avoid Bottlenecks

If we want to make progress, we are probably suspicious of every bottleneck that might slow down the team. Sometimes, we might install a bottleneck intentionally—for example, having a single integration point is an intended bottleneck for avoiding conflicts. However, most of the time, we want to avoid bottlenecks no matter what the cause.

Bottlenecks in a large team

Here are the most frequent bottlenecks found in large teams.

Coupling

The architecture has to ensure that the subsystems are as loosely coupled as possible. Otherwise, a single change can require the compilation of the whole application because it is very ...