A bounded, fixed-scope advisory engagement that assesses delivery health, surfaces gaps and risks, restores clarity, and defines the practical actions needed to stabilize a troubled initiative before more time, money, or confidence is lost.
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Delivery Confidence Is Declining: Stakeholders are losing confidence in the initiative, but the root causes are not yet clear.
Progress Is Hard to Validate: Teams are reporting activity, but it is difficult to determine whether meaningful progress is being made.
Requirements Are Not Holding: Stories, requirements, workflows, acceptance criteria, or business rules are incomplete, unstable, or inconsistently understood.
Testing Readiness Is Weak: QA, UAT, test data, traceability, acceptance criteria, or validation planning may not be mature enough to support delivery decisions.
Scope Has Become Unclear: Requirements, priorities, assumptions, or delivery boundaries have shifted without a shared understanding of impact.
Risks Are Becoming Visible: Delivery risks, dependencies, defects, gaps, or unresolved decisions are beginning to affect confidence and momentum.
Stakeholders Are Misaligned: Business, technology, vendor, product, and delivery teams are operating from different assumptions or priorities.
The Path Forward Is Unclear: Leaders need an independent view of whether to proceed, pause, refine scope, reset expectations, or change the delivery approach.
Delivery Health Snapshot:
Clear summary of current delivery status, visible concerns, confidence level, and major areas of delivery weakness.
Stakeholder and Decision Map: Key stakeholders, decision owners, unresolved decisions, escalation paths, and alignment gaps identified.
Testing and Readiness Findings: Assessment of QA, UAT, test data, traceability, validation gaps, and readiness to support delivery confidence.
Recovery Actions and Next Steps: Prioritized recommendations, decision options, corrective actions, and a practical path to stabilize the initiative.
Scope and Requirements Review: Assessment of requirements quality, scope boundaries, assumptions, acceptance criteria, and readiness for continued delivery.
Risk and Dependency Profile: Practical view of delivery risks, dependencies, constraints, blockers, assumptions, and mitigation priorities.
CAD $4,500
Up to 1 week
A focused engagement to identify major delivery concerns, confidence gaps, and practical next steps for a troubled or uncertain initiative.
Executive intake & brief
Delivery context review
High-level requirements and scope scan
Key risks, blockers, and unknowns
Diagnostic summary and recommendations
CAD $9,500
2 weeks
Our core engagement to assess delivery health, clarify scope and risks, and define the corrective actions needed to stabilize the initiative.
Everything in the Diagnostic
Requirements and acceptance criteria review
Stakeholder and decision map
Delivery risks and dependency profile
Testing and readiness findings
Executive summary and recovery actions
CAD $18,500
4-5 weeks
A deeper recovery engagement for complex, multi-team, vendor-led, regulated, enterprise, or high-risk initiatives requiring a stronger reset.
Everything in the Recovery Sprint
Detailed workflow and process review
Expanded requirements and backlog review
Cross-functional stakeholder interviews
Vendor / delivery team alignment review
Implementation path and recovery roadmap options
Executive decision-support briefing
CAD $5,500
5-7 business days
An independent review of existing requirements, plans, backlog, test readiness, delivery materials, or implementation approach before a key milestone proceeds.
Requirements quality review
Scope and assumption assessment
Delivery risks and dependencies
Testability and acceptance criteria check
Go / refine / pause recommendation
This engagement focuses on implementation readiness, delivery health, and recovery direction. The following are outside this engagement.
Solution architecture or technical design
Development or configuration work
Vendor management execution
Change management execution
Ongoing program or project management
Full QA or UAT execution
Clarity under pressure: Identify what is unclear, unstable, missing, or misaligned before the initiative drifts further.
Structured and pragmatic: Use practical delivery, requirements, risk, and readiness analysis rather than abstract project theory.
Better decision support: Give leaders a clearer basis to proceed, pause, refine scope, reset expectations, or change the delivery approach.
Recovery confidence: Produce actionable outputs that help teams regain control, focus effort, and stabilize the path forward.