If nobody can tell you which version of the plan is live, you’re not moving fast. You’re in the Overwhelmed.
The signs are plain: customers are using a product that’s being rebuilt under them, onboarding is always behind, and your best people spend their week stitching together handoffs that broke two pivots ago.
This is not a grit problem. Melt outran capacity. And overflow is brutal because it does quadratic damage: each unit of change you fail to digest creates more than one unit of pain. Rework multiplies. Coordination drag multiplies. Trust burn multiplies.
Leave it untreated and the system starts eating its own memory. The people who still know how things work walk out, and the company collapses from the inside while the dashboard still says growth.