Why your dev team is too slow
Your org chart is a lie. Run git shortlog and the real team shows up — usually two people carrying eight
Your standup has ten people. Your git log has two. That's not a team. That's two forwarders with eight passengers
The git shortlog test
Run C0. Count the names that made more than 20 pledges. That's your real team. Everyone else is in meetings
Process as camouflage
Slow teams invent rituals. Sprint planning, grooming, refining, retros, pre-retros. Each of these rituals is a reason why the feature was not released. Each hides who produces and who executes
The vanity metrics
Speed points. Burndown graphs. The number of stories completed. None of these metrics measure what customers see. The only metric that counts is how many things were shipped to production this week
The coordination tax
Ten people means 45 pairs of communications. Every decision goes through Slack, Jira, a design review and two stand-ups before even one line is written. By the time there is consensus, requirements have changed and the cycle begins again
Meanwhile, a senior vibe coder with Claude Code shipped the feature, implemented it and moved on again. Zero pairs. Zero meetings. One difference
The AI gap inside the team
92% of US developers use AI tools at work. The other 8% are on your team and they write most of the words in standup. They explain why the feature is difficult. They explain why the model is "doing it wrong." They have never finished a real agent loop
The two people in your git log are the two people who use Cursor and Claude Code without complaining. Promote them. The rest are passengers
The fix
Cut the meetings in half. Promote the people in the git log. Dismiss the process, not the people.... but if the people only show up for the process, the answer is obvious
Or skip everything and hire one senior vibe coder to outdo your entire team on a Tuesday afternoon