Comment by easton_s

I remember a post Msoft Dev wrote about adding a fairly simple feature to a web api. The code itself could be written by a single dev in a day or two, but the logistics needed for testing, documenting, supporting and communicating this involved hundreds of people with thousands of man hours. It also would bind them to maintaining this feature almost indefinitely. Because of that last point alone it took months to years to get a signoff on features.