Earlier/later time windows

Stretch the clock rather than the org chart. Ask what happened before your data starts and what happens after it ends. Causes that predate your window, and costs that land after it, are invisible to every actor-level or upstream check.

Stretch the clock rather than the org chart. Ask what happened before your data starts and what happens after it ends. Causes that predate your window, and costs that land after it, are invisible to every actor-level or upstream check.

Example

Your three retrospectives all covered the last 90 days. Extend backward 18 months and you find the vendor contract was renegotiated to a slower delivery tier. Extend forward six months and you see rushed handoffs generating support tickets that the project scorecard never counts.