A two-minute decision guide
Start with what changed around the plan.
Four choices connect your situation to the likely first piece of work. Nothing is recorded or sent.
Each situation has a different first useful question.
Open the situation closest to yours. Each route explains why plans stall, what Atlas would examine first and where to learn more.
New strategyThe strategy is approved, but the decisions, roles and trade-offs needed to deliver it are not yet clear.
Likely first piece of work
An Execution Forecast for the approved plan.
Start with the plan, not the people. Atlas translates the strategy into changed demands, then reads the organisation against them before milestones begin to move.
New ownershipNew owners are asking the existing organisation to carry a plan it did not write.
Likely first piece of work
An Execution Forecast for the first hundred days.
Put evidence under the new demands before the first irreversible move. Read each role in its new context rather than assuming past performance will transfer unchanged.
New operating modelThe structure changed on paper, but decisions and handovers still follow the old routes.
Likely first piece of work
An Execution Forecast for the target operating model.
Read the target model against real ownership, decision routes and working patterns. Assess leaders in the structure they are moving into, not the one they are leaving.
New pressureA tighter deadline or cost demand is overloading the same roles, teams and decision routes.
Likely first piece of work
A Reforecast if a baseline exists. A Forecast if it does not.
Start by finding where organisational capacity is exposed, which roles carry too much decision load, and which change to scope, sequence or ownership would release pressure first.
New dependencyEach team is delivering its own work, but the shared outcome keeps slipping between them.
Likely first piece of work
An Execution Forecast focused on the shared outcome.
Map the cross-functional dependencies, define each handoff and identify the end-to-end outcome owner before the next execution bottleneck reaches the milestone.
New evidenceNew information challenges an assumption behind the plan or an earlier Atlas judgement.
Likely first piece of work
An Execution Reforecast against the recorded baseline.
Preserve the first forecast, test the new signal and update only the ratings, recommendations or review dates the evidence supports changing.
Something elseThe decision is material, but none of the six common triggers describes it cleanly.
Likely first piece of work
The Atlas method, then a bounded first question.
Start by defining the plan, the decision and the person who owns the consequence. The method explains how Atlas reads the organisation expected to carry it.