Escalation and Visibility
Stage 1 · The trend lines cross
Two weeks into a six-week project, burn-down shows you're tracking a week late and slipping. Nothing has broken yet. The weekly leadership dashboard still shows green because no one has updated it. The next exec review is in three days.
What's at stake
Surface it now and you control the narrative while options exist. Wait and the gap grows until it surfaces itself — louder, later, with fewer choices.