Cycle time

When working with another person or another team you become faced with the problem of latency in the cycle time.When you're working alone the only real limiting factor is how fast you can work and how well your tools work.The big issue with the working with someone else is how quickly they can get back to you when you have questions or need feedback and how many times that round trip needs to be made.That's where it can get more than frustrating.Let's say you're working on a project. You submit a code review to the other team for instance and some things need to be corrected, let's say A, B, C, and D.The ideal scenario is you get back the feedback and they say to do all four and get back to them. You do four and you're set. You only have two round-trips.They can, however, just get back A. You fix A and resubmit. Then get told to do B, and so forth. Each of the now five round trips takes time -- and the time equals lost work opportunity and frustration.