PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Monday dependency shift: recompute blocked chain and notify owners

When an upstream Monday item's due date changes, this finds every downstream item that depends on it across boards, shifts their dates by the same delta.

CategoryProject Management
Enginesim
Difficultyintermediate
Triggerevent
Steps5
Setup~15 min

How it runs

The automated pipeline, trigger to output.

  • TriggerMonday Due Date column changed on an itemmonday.com
  • ActionWalk dependency links to collect downstream items across boardsmonday.com
  • LogicDetermine slip vs pull-in and compute day delta
  • ActionShift downstream start/due dates by the deltamonday.com
  • OutputDM each affected owner the moved item and cause in SlackSlack

What it does

Real projects break quietly: someone slips an upstream item's due date and the blocked items downstream silently inherit an impossible timeline. This watches for due-date changes on Monday items, walks the dependency links across boards, recomputes every downstream date by the same shift, writes the new dates back, and tells each owner in Slack exactly what changed.

When to use it

Run this on programs where items on one board block items on another (e.g. Design blocks Eng blocks Launch) and a single date slip needs to cascade without a manager hand-reconciling boards.

How it works

  1. 1A Monday column-change webhook fires when an item's Due Date column is updated.
  2. 2The flow reads the item and follows its Dependency column to collect all downstream items, hopping across linked boards.
  3. 3A branch checks whether the change is a slip (later) versus a pull-in (earlier) and computes the day delta.
  4. 4It applies the delta to each downstream item's start and due dates via the Monday API, preserving working-day spacing.
  5. 5For each downstream owner it posts a Slack DM naming the moved item, old and new dates, and the upstream cause.

Set it up

What you configure once, before turning it on.

  1. 1
    Connect monday.comVisual work management for teams.
  2. 2
    Connect SlackChannels, DMs, threads, mentions.
  3. 3
    Set each agent's modelWe leave models unset so you pick the tier — fast + cheap, or top-quality.
  4. 4
    Tune it to your dataEdit the prompts, filters, and field mappings so it matches how your team works.
  5. 5
    Test, then turn it onRun once against a sample, confirm the output, then enable the trigger.

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