Project rescue and delivery management
Delivery assessments, re-planning a late project, and standing in as delivery lead for teams that need one.
The date has moved twice and nobody can say precisely why. Standups happen, the board gets updated, and the work still is not landing.
- Starts with
- A 30-minute call
- Timezone
- UTC+05:30 · overlaps EU mornings and US evenings
What you get
- A written assessment: where the time is going, which dependencies have no owner, and what the plan assumes that is not true.
- A re-planned schedule showing which scope cut buys which date, so the choice is yours rather than the calendar's.
- A weekly status your stakeholders can read in ninety seconds without someone translating it for them.
How it runs
Listen separately
Engineers, product, and whoever is accountable for the date — they each know a different part of the problem and rarely say the same thing in a group.
Read the evidence
Ticket history, cycle times and how long pull requests sit. Where the plan and the data disagree, the data is right.
Say the uncomfortable thing, then re-plan
Almost every late project has one fact nobody has stated out loud; after that comes a schedule with the trade-offs priced, which I either hand to your lead or run myself until the release is out.
Questions
Will you tell our team they are the problem?
It is almost never true and never useful. Late projects are usually caused by unclear ownership, scope arriving through side channels, or a date set before anyone estimated — all fixable, and none of them a person.
Does this replace our project manager?
Rarely the point. More often the PM is spending their week on reporting when they should be removing blockers, and the fix is changing what the role does rather than who holds it.
If this sounds like your situation, the next step is a call.