Dashboards multiply and updates become more frequent. Additional layers of reporting begin to form across the programme.
From the outside, visibility improves.
But the underlying position does not.
This is where execution drag starts to build.
Activity continues and reporting expands, but the constraint has not moved. More time is spent producing updates, more resource is pulled into reporting, and the cost is already being absorbed without improving the outcome.
At the same time, decisions begin to take longer, even with more information available.
This is usually where reporting stops improving delivery and starts compensating for it.
It shows up before delivery issues are openly acknowledged, while confidence is still being sustained.
By the time it becomes visible, the cost has already been carried.
A related pattern shows up where work continues, but progress does not move.