What slows your team down most?
912 responses · fieldwork 4–18 July 2026
Multiple answers allowed, so totals exceed 100%.
Maintaining pipelines nobody owns
+7
61% · 556
Waiting on another team for access
−3
48% · 438
Disagreement about metric definitions
+11
44% · 401
Slow queries and dashboard load times
−9
31% · 283
Tooling budget and procurement
—
22% · 201
Something else
+2
14% · 128
Sample drawn from newsletter subscribers and two community forums; not weighted, so treat it as directional rather than representative.