software engineering

thinking from 2025

http://ordep.dev/posts/writing-code-was-never-the-bottleneck

What is “Coordination”?

In the context of software engineering, coordination refers to the effort and time spent making sure that people, tasks, and systems are aligned with each other. It includes:

1.	Scheduling work so that tasks don’t block each other.
2.	Aligning priorities across team members and stakeholders.
3.	Synchronizing changes to codebases, APIs, infrastructure, etc.
4.	Agreeing on decisions, like architecture or tool choice.
5.	Meeting and communicating—standups, sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives.

Even if each engineer is fast at coding, if they’re blocked waiting on a review, or unaware someone else is changing the same component, productivity suffers.