Watermelon Reporting
The report says the program is green. The delivery team knows it is not. Between those two realities sits a governance failure that is structural, not interpersonal. Nobody is lying. The reporting architecture is producing what reporting architectures under commercial pressure almost always produce: a version of the program that is coherent, confident, and several […]
The Boardroom Disconnect
The board is not being deceived. It is being governed by an architecture that produces accurate-looking information from an inaccurate position. This distinction matters because it changes the diagnosis entirely. A board that believes it is being misled will look for bad actors. A board that understands it is being governed by a structurally limited […]