The Price of a Slow Yes

Every approval chain has a weekly rate, and I have rarely seen a team work out theirs

Sep 17, 2026

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A person with an enormous overgrown beard sits on a chair outside a closed door, a laptop on their knees, under a large wall clock.

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I have been the gate far more often than I have been the one waiting behind it. Work sat in my queue while a team carried on without an answer, and I could not have told you what that cost. None of it ever appeared on a budget line. The money was real all the same.

"I do not think most of us have a meeting problem. I think we have a decision problem." Kaanti Shetty, writing in Product Coalition

The Queue Nobody Draws

Every product organisation runs a second backlog underneath the visible one. It holds decisions rather than features. It has no board, no owner and no refinement session, so it never gets estimated.

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