I mapped a three-week sprint with a Gantt chart to launch a 12-item fall menu, complete with dependencies (poach eggs → hollandaise → plate), and at 7:42 a.m. the fryer staged an unplanned outage that nuked my critical path. We ran a five-minute stand-up by the dish pit and reassigned stations like a jobsite crew; who else tried to roll out a menu on a tight schedule and got tackled by sauce?