What wastes the most time in a software team?

In "What wastes the most time in a software team?" I answer a programming question.

[XavierGoncalves]

Lack of acceptance criteria on tasks, lack of descriptions of the intent of a task, lack of tech approaches, lack of user journeys, lack of documentation, lack of planning, tech debt, etc. We live in an age where technically you can move really fast and make stuff that was complex and took months for several teams to implement, in a matter of hours, so the levels above are ones that can hold us back

[vabalokis]

what about useless meetings like standups?

[currentspw]

Dear god, don't use index files unless it's for package. HA