The mobile team would integrate with the prototype API while the real one is being implemented. Also, companies can't just hire more developers. Developers are

The mobile team would integrate with the prototype API while the real one is being implemented. Also, companies can't just hire more developers. Developers aren't as elastic and on demand as EC2. That's the issue I ran into on projects I've worked on. It's when you have a team that's split horizontally on a product and one is blocking the other from making any progress.