Friday's status shows green β but when you cross-reference schedule, budget, scope, and milestone data, the picture shifts. Confidence score dropped 21 points in two weeks across four independent metrics.
I read your last 6 steering committee decks and meeting minutes. The vendor middleware delay has appeared every single time with the same action item: "Escalate to vendor executive."
Six weeks. Same slide. Same action. No resolution.
Stripe announced the acquisition of PaymentCo (your processor) yesterday. Based on Stripe's pattern with previous acquisitions, you have 6-9 months before API deprecation notices and 12-18 months before forced migration.
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency released updated BSA/AML examination procedures on Tuesday. Buried on page 47: the implementation timeline for AI-assisted transaction monitoring moved from Q3 to end of Q1.
Your project plan has a June 30 deadline. The new deadline is March 31. Jennifer's team doesn't know yet.
Data Warehouse Migration looks fine on paper. But it's showing the same pattern that Analytics Platform showed 8 weeks before it went 40% over budget:
I mapped your resource dependencies. Kevin is assigned to 4 projects and is the only person who understands ISO 20022 payment message formats. There's no backup trained.
When a project says green and every signal confirms it β schedule on track, budget healthy, milestones hitting, risk count stable β that's worth calling out. It's rarer than you'd think.