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A smiling consultant presents a green dashboard reading Project Status: Green, On Track, On Budget, On Schedule, while the office burns behind him, three colleagues hold their heads in their hands and a whiteboard headed Reality lists servers down, client furious, team exhausted and morale at zero.

The Status Report

Reality, appropriately summarized.

It is green because green is what the dashboard is for. The building is on fire, the client is screaming through the glass, and not one of those things has a field on the form.

It's amber-green. Which, for reporting purposes, is green.