Where to start · Organisational aspect · Project management
Is the project under control?
An honest picture of time, costs, dependencies and responsibilities, readable by the team and by the people who make the decisions.
10 daysdelivery from kickoff
When you need it
- The project has started. Deadlines slip a little, every time.
- The budget grows a little, every time, and no single increase looks unjustified.
- There is more than one supplier and each tells a different version of the status.
- Dependencies on other teams or systems are setting the schedule in your place.
- Management asks for the real status and nobody can give it to them in one page.
- You know something does not add up, but you cannot point to where.
What we answer
- Where you really are against the plan, measured rather than reported.
- What can still slip, by how much, and with what probability.
- Which dependencies are on the critical path and who controls them.
- Who decides what, and which decisions are stuck because it is unclear whose they are.
- Which information is not reaching the people who need it to decide.
What we do
- We rebuild the real plan from the artefacts, not from status meetings.
- We compare declared progress with verifiable progress, and measure the gap.
- We map internal and external dependencies and estimate their impact on the schedule.
- We reconstruct the flow of decisions: who proposes, who approves, who is informed.
- We apply our extension of FMECA and FTA to estimate the events that could move the delivery date, and what it would cost to prevent them.
What you receive
A document of about twenty pages. This is the actual table of contents, not an example.
- Project health, in one page
- Schedule health and delivery scenarios
- Budget health and estimate at completion
- Dependency map and critical path
- Responsibility map and stuck decisions
- Events that could move the delivery, with the cost of preventing them
- Corrective actions, in order of convenience
The decision you will be able to make
Confirm · Recalibrate · Stop
With dates and scenarios you can bring to the people funding the project.
And then?
If action is needed to restore order, the natural continuation is team augmentation with one of our senior figures for a few months, or a turnkey project on the most urgent corrective actions.
Format
- Investment
- A fixed, modest cost, agreed before starting.
- Delivery
- Ten days from kickoff. Kickoff within five working days of confirmation.
- Your time
- About 6 hours in total from your team, spread over three meetings.
- Scope included
- One project or workflow, with up to three teams or suppliers involved. Beyond this scope we agree an extension before starting.
- For the ten days to be kept
- The agreed meetings take place within the window and the project documentation arrives by the second day. If something slips, we tell you straight away.
It is an entry format at dedicated conditions, designed to get to know each other by working together. It is not our standard project rate.
What it is not
- It is not a review of people's work and it is not there to establish who is to blame.
- It is not a formal certification audit.
- It is not an offer to take over the project: if you need that too, we talk about it afterwards and separately.