Cross-Project Dependency Tracker

The problem this kills

Project A is counting on Team B to hand over a deliverable by the 20th. Team B has quietly slipped to the 27th. Nobody told Project A - until the day they went to use it, and the whole launch stalled.

Cross-team dependencies are where good plans go to die. The promise lives in someone's head, or in a tab on a spreadsheet that only one person opens, or buried in a status deck three weeks out of date. When the providing side slips, the receiving side finds out far too late to react. And when you have dozens of these threaded across a program, no single person can see the whole web - let alone spot the chain reaction when one late item drags three downstream projects with it.

This tool makes every cross-team commitment visible, owned by both sides, and loud the moment it's at risk.

What you'll build

A private web app for your program or PMO where you can:

• Import your dependencies from a spreadsheet or CSV - which project needs what, from which team, by when.
• See the dependency map - a clear picture of who's waiting on whom, including multi-step chains (A needs B, B needs C) and circular tangles where two teams are each blocked on the other.
• Compute what's at risk automatically, based on due dates, current status, and how much runway is left.
• Get both sides to confirm every dependency - the requesting owner and the providing owner each accept it, so nobody can claim they never agreed to deliver.
• Send approved slip alerts - when a providing item drifts toward late, the tool drafts an alert showing both sides the downstream impact, an owner reviews and approves it, and only then does it go out.
• Export a clean CSV of the updated tracker in the exact columns your PMO or system of record expects.

What's inside the Implementation Plan

• It starts by interviewing you about your business. Before it builds anything, the plan has the AI agent ask you about your real process - how you track dependencies today, what tools and spreadsheets you use, how your projects and teams are named, your typical and peak dependency counts, your status values, your escalation rules, and your messy exceptions. It reflects a short tailored spec back to you for a thumbs-up, then builds the tool around your answers - not a generic template.
• A step-by-step build, each step ending in a ready-to-paste prompt for your AI agent.
• The data model for dependencies, owners, confirmations, and alerts - shaped by your interview answers.
• At-risk logic, chain detection, and circular-dependency detection.
• The dual-confirmation flow and the approval gate before any alert is sent.
• A "No API yet?" fallback so you can build the whole thing today from a spreadsheet, with CSV export back out.
• A verification checklist so you know it actually works.

The governance it includes (this is the point)

This isn't a toy. Governance is baked in from the first build step:

• Login so only your team can open the tool.
• Row-level security so people only ever see their own organization's dependencies - never another company's.
• A complete audit trail - who confirmed what, who approved which alert, and exactly when.
• A human-in-the-loop approval gate - the AI drafts at-risk alerts, but a person reviews and approves before anything goes out or gets written to your tracker of record.
• Duplicate guards - the same dependency can't be imported or processed twice, deduped on the providing item plus the consuming project.

Who it's for

Program managers, PMO leads, and delivery managers coordinating multiple teams or projects who are tired of cross-team hand-offs blowing up at the last minute. If you live in dependency spreadsheets and status meetings, this is for you. No coding background needed - you'll vibe-code it by pasting the plan into an AI agent.

You've got this - paste the first prompt and let the agent interview you.