What does that mean? In #SaaS product development, sometimes you will need to guide your teams to do things that will help gain velocity in development and deployment of incremental production releases. Three key areas:

1. Planning – breaking down epics (user stories) into tasking. Then, defining who does what and if there are any dependencies.
2. Design – Starting with the big boxes, what is the data flow, what logic is needed, etc. identify where integration points happen. Even a light touch on design will find flaws that may not surface in code for many days.
3. Testing – Take advantage of the many levels of testing to find issues early.

All three of these will slow down the apparent development of product, but not really. In reality, proper planning, agile design, and testing increase velocity, quality and ability to scale.