The real cost of a slow design-to-dev handoff

The handoff gap is where most product quality actually gets lost — not in the design file, not in the code, but in the translation between them.

Running design and development in the same sprints, with the same standups, closes that gap almost entirely. Questions get answered in minutes instead of surfacing three weeks later as a Slack thread.

It's slower to set up than a traditional agency-then-dev-shop pipeline. It's faster for everything that follows.