This invisibility is not a minor inconvenience. It is the root cause of the failure modes described in the previous lesson. You cannot manage deadline collisions you cannot see. You cannot allocate resources against workload peaks you have not measured. You cannot build a pipeline for a landscape you have not mapped.

This lesson teaches you to make the invisible visible. Before you build tracking systems (Lesson 3) or quality control processes (Lesson 4), you must first conduct a submission landscape assessment -- a systematic inventory of every active study, its IRB of record, its submission history, its upcoming deadlines, and its current regulatory status. The output is not a binder or a report. It is the operational map without which no pipeline can function.

This invisibility is not a minor inconvenience. It is the root cause of the failure modes described in the previous lesson. You cannot manage deadline collisions you cannot see. You cannot allocate resources against workload peaks you have not measured. You cannot build a pipeline for a landscape you have not mapped.

This lesson teaches you to make the invisible visible. Before you build tracking systems (Lesson 3) or quality control processes (Lesson 4), you must first conduct a submission landscape assessment -- a systematic inventory of every active study, its IRB of record, its submission history, its upcoming deadlines, and its current regulatory status. The output is not a binder or a report. It is the operational map without which no pipeline can function.