> Setting aside quality assurance and risk assessment/mitigation, I'm seriously impressed with the speed in which they construct complex infrastructure.
Not only infrastructure, it's just everything here glides like on butter in comparison to my experience in Canada and US, both in public and private spheres.
My experience making business in Canada: drag and head current in everything. That's a part of the culture: to complicate things, add friction, and "we don't know how it will go, so we wouldn't do anything" attitude
In the West, people feel to have something almost bordering on subconscious compulsion to impede things, and add friction to anything around.
From one side, your people have a burning desire to show concern, and involve themselves into everything, and on another, they have no real intention to do a thing beyond that.
> The are some good reasons we don't quite go at this pace, but there are lots of good lessons about expediency to be gleaned as well.
The biggest impediment you have in the West is the MBA culture everywhere. Everybody tries to speak like a banker or lawyer, and even think of that as something good!
How many fund managers do you need to define a strategy how to write a hello world app? You know the answer already, but these people will simply not take no as an answer, and will not let things go until they get it.