Escalation Score Timeline

This is the longitudinal view of portfolio governance health. Rather than showing where things stand today, it shows how the composite risk score for each project has moved over time — whether projects are trending toward escalation, stabilizing after an intervention, or continuing to deteriorate.

For executives reviewing governance trends, this is the primary evidence of whether the organization's risk management is improving or getting worse over time.

What you can conclude

• A project whose score is rising consistently toward the 70-point escalation threshold needs intervention now — before it breaches the threshold.
• A project whose score dropped sharply after a specific week demonstrates that an intervention worked — useful evidence for governance reporting.
• A portfolio where all projects show declining scores over time is the target state — risk is being actively managed down.

How this chart works

Multi-line time series showing the composite risk escalation score per project per week. Threshold lines at 70 (escalation required) and 85 (board alert). Score = SLA breach rate (35%) + reopen surge (25%) + stuck-issue growth (20%) + unowned high-priority change (20%).