Etude · Campaign Cascade
Cascade Simulator
Click launch. Watch a campaign multiply itself.
A cross-cutting initiative — a mass-PR migration, say — does not stall quietly. It multiplies. The original stalls. Escalation triggers a new campaign. That one stalls. None of them complete the original work.
Press launch. Four campaigns spawn. The original migration creeps.
Simulator
Campaigns launched0
PRs created0
PRs merged0
Original migration completion0%
Wall time0 weeks
Effort0 person-weeks
The failure mode
This is the failure mode. Each campaign is rational — escalation, tracking, dashboarding, decommissioning are all the right idea. The system can still fail because the right ideas multiply faster than they finish. The dead zone is where you can identify every part of the cascade and still can't stop it.