[Intro]

Architecture waits on Legal.
Legal waits on Cloud.
Cloud is waiting for Procurement.
Procurement is not allowed.

Security waits on Testing.
Testing waits on Build.
Build is waiting for the schema
Product has not filled.

[Verse]

Team Alpha needs an interface,
Team Delta needs a server space,
The server needs a signed request,
The signer left for annual rest.

The vendor needs a final scope,
The scope requires a proof of hope,
The proof depends on data clean,
The data team awaits Irene.

[Chorus]

Dependency on everything,
Every wire tied to another string,
Pull one task and forty sing,
Dependency on everything.

No first move and no beginning—
Every answer forms a ring.

[Verse]

The Gantt chart spreads across the wall,
Forty-seven links in all,
Blue arrows climb through yellow rows,
Then double back where no one knows.

A test account needs H-R,
H-R requires who users are,
The user list needs roles approved,
The role review has not been moved.

[Choir]

We cannot start until they send it.
They cannot send until we mend it.
We cannot mend before they test it.
They cannot test until requested.

We need the thing they need from us—
The circle tightens, phones all ring.

[Instrumental Break]

[Female Vocal]

Find the earliest task unblocked.
Find the door that is not locked.
Name one owner who can act.
Name one date supported by fact.

[Male Vocal]

Ownership is cross-functional.
Dependencies are operational.
Delivery is our common aim.
No single party holds the chain.

[Bridge]

The bayss begins. The drums must wait.
The guitar enters bar eight late.
One note delays the next to sound,
Dependent upon everything.

[Build-up]

Forty-seven arrows flash,
Twenty meetings, little passed,
Every team has evidence
That their delay is someone else's.

[Final Chorus]

Dependency on everything,
Every promise tied with office string,
Cut one knot and three begin,
Dependency on everything.

No clear loser, no one winning—
Phoenix waits without a wing.

[Outro]

Architecture waits on Legal.
Legal waits on Cloud.
Cloud is waiting for Procurement.
The lights go out. No one moves now.
