Retune the cadence

Change how frequently action or feedback happens.

Your team syncs once a month, an epic two-hour meeting. In between, small misalignments compound for weeks: two people build overlapping features, a third waits 12 days on an answer that took 30 seconds to give. The meeting itself is fine. The rhythm is wrong for how fast the work moves.

Retune the cadence changes how frequently action or feedback happens, matching the rhythm to the system's rate of change. The cue: problems that grow meaningfully between check-ins, or the mirror image, check-ins so frequent they interrupt more than they align. Steps: estimate how fast things drift (here, days, not weeks); adjust frequency toward that speed, say a 15-minute weekly sync replacing the monthly epic; then watch the drift indicators, duplicated work and blocked questions, and tune again. The visible change: misalignments get caught while they are still 30-second fixes, and total meeting time can actually fall because each session carries less accumulated confusion. Cadence fails in both directions, so don't only speed up: reviewing slow-moving things too often, like weighing yourself three times a day, feeds noise into decisions and triggers overcorrection. Match the drum to the dance.