Maya didn't flinch. "I told them the truth—that we had a risk. Now we have a fact."
Kieran erupted. "You told the board we were on track!" asta project management
"Everything on the spine is critical path," she said. "Everything on a branch can slip by up to five days without killing us." Maya didn't flinch
Maya didn't believe in "just get it done." She believed in ASTA. Helios-7 had none of them.
Kieran asked, "Are you sure?"
Maya pointed to the ASTA principles still written on the whiteboard. "Alignment: we all want a working satellite. Sequence: this is now the spine. Transparency: you're looking at it. Adaptation: watch me."
And right now, Helios-7 had none of them.