Early results suggest the number spikes during roadmap reviews, architecture syncs, and any sentence beginning with “quick question.”
Analysts say the metric becomes especially volatile when leadership asks for a single owner on problems that are plainly spread across six teams, four systems, and one haunted spreadsheet.
One pilot participant said the company has already built a heat map of uncertainty hotspots, proving once again that no human hesitation is too fleeting to be operationalized.