Opacity isn’t chaos or disorder (but it can lead there fast).
It is believing you can see the project clearly, especially when you are really looking at a filtered, simplified version of it. Dashboards glow green while trouble grows elsewhere.
This video explores how siloed teams, delayed reporting, optimistic narratives and poor visibility create late shocks. Most major project disasters do not appear from nowhere. Warning signs were often present. They were simply hidden, softened or never connected. Visibility is cheaper than crisis management, though less fashionable.
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