Blocked Items & Dependency Risk Intelligence

Vanta Systems • Week 12, 2024 • Dependency-Adjusted On-Time Delivery: 78.2%

North Star Metric
78.2%
On-Time Delivery (Dep-Adj)
MTTU (All Categories)
28.4h
-12% vs 4wk avg
Cascade Risk Score
142
+89 vs last week
Blocker Recurrence Rate
18%
-5% vs 8wk avg
Active Blocked Items
23
+7 vs last week
Blocked Hours/Eng (Week)
6.2h
+0.4h vs baseline
Escalation-to-Res Lag
14.6h
-3.2h vs 4wk avg

Cascade Risk Network — Current Active Blockers

Node size = downstream dependency count • Edge width = risk score • Red nodes = P0/P1 severity

Blocker Category Distribution (8 weeks)

Mean Time to Unblock by Category

Blocker Trend Over Time (12 weeks)

Week 6 spike: PaymentsCo API v1 deprecation (9 blockers, cascade score 89)

Dependency Ownership Distribution

External Dependency Lead Time

Escalation-to-Resolution Lag by Week

SLA threshold: P1 blockers must resolve within 24h of escalation (red line)

Active Blocker Risk Table

Item ID Category Owner Blocked (h) Cascade Priority Status
VANT-4821 External API PaymentsCo 62.4 18 P0 Escalated
VANT-4803 Infrastructure DevOps Team 41.2 12 P1 In Progress
VANT-4829 Cross-Team Auth Team 28.6 8 P1 Escalated
VANT-4812 Technical Debt Internal 18.4 5 P2 In Progress
VANT-4836 External API AnalyticsCo 14.2 3 P2 Pending
VANT-4841 Requirements Product Team 12.8 2 P3 Pending
VANT-4819 Cross-Team Data Team 9.2 4 P2 In Progress
VANT-4827 Infrastructure Platform Team 6.4 1 P3 Pending

Blocker-Induced Cycle Time Overhead (12 weeks)

Overhead = actual cycle time minus baseline (blocked hours removed) • Target: <15% overhead