The Slicing Fallacy

Slice, baby, slice
That’s how you’re going to iterate faster.
Or is it?

You sliced that feature into 3 iterations
But wait!
Iteration 2 implies to rework a lot that happened in iteration 1
Could we not just ship them together?

And actually, 3 releases, that’s 3 times the overhead:
3 times the manual testing, the deployment and so on.
Can’t we just do a single release?

When 2 changes cost more than a larger one, you bundle.
That’s what Cost of Change does:
The higher it is, the stronger the incentives to delay and to bundle.

You cannot slice your way out of slow iterations
That’s the slicing fallacy.
You are slow because you have high cost of change
And slicing won’t help as long as this remains true.