What executive sponsors should review weekly, monthly, and at each phase gate.
Weekly: delivery health
Review progress, decisions, risks, dependencies, and near-term commitments—not activity volume.
Monthly: value and capacity
Check whether the engagement is improving the target business measures and whether team shape still fits the next phase.
Phase gates: evidence to proceed
Require working outputs, readiness checks, ownership, and a clear rationale before expanding scope or releasing to production.
Turn the idea into an operating plan
Use this perspective as a starting point, then adapt it to your systems, constraints, decision rights, and team capacity.
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