Senior IT project manager in Toronto. Almost 20 years in technology delivery, including 10+ as a PM consultant and postgraduate professor. I write Execution Signal.
Following up politely is the one lever you cannot enforce. Four moves for turning a dependency you do not own into a dated request with a named person, a stated default, and a cost the room can see.
Most of that red list is symptoms. A 14-day sequence for finding the one item everything else is queued behind, and proving it before you change anything.
