[sovietmudkipz]

I like this idea. It maps nicely to the concept of ‘andon cord’ applied to software engineering.

If an engineer has an issue, pull the cord to broadcast to someone on your team. Then your entire team. Then a sister team. Then eventually to everyone in your org.

Maybe even the initial message only gets sent out after a reasonable amount of minutes, in case the engineer wants to rescind the call for help.