You own the date. Now you can see it.
What moved this week, what it breaks, and the decision waiting for you — before the review, from the tools, not the slides.
Finish date, read from the tools…
Today, the slip reaches you two weeks after it happened.
A two-hour review of self-reported status. A chip program is thousands of dependencies converging on one date, and you see them as a slide someone built on Wednesday. The re-plan happens in a hallway afterwards — and the reasoning behind it walks out the door.
“The job stopped being engineering leadership and started being status assembly. I needed something that would do the assembly so I could do the leadership.”
VP Engineering, semiconductor company
The review becomes twenty minutes on exceptions.
You see it the hour it moves
The record is read from the tools. The alarm reaches you with the downstream chain attached: what slipped, what it blocks, which date is now at risk.
The re-plan is waiting
Recovery paths arrive already simulated — what each recovers and what it costs. Seconds to simulate, minutes to decide.
You approve; it doesn't
Nothing consequential happens on its own. You set what it may do without asking, and you can change that at any time.
The reasoning stays
Every re-baseline is kept with its approver and its reason. The next program lead inherits why, not just what.
What changes
- Status meetings
- Become exception reviews — about 70% shorter by month three.
- Slip risk
- Surfaces two to three weeks earlier.
- Your engineers
- Don't update another tool. Tymeline reads the ones they already use.
- Time to live
- One program in about two weeks.