Delivery Management Advisory
"When does the next release ship?" If your organization and teams cannot answer this question confidently, you definitely need this consultancy. I build the planning cadence and dependency tracking discipline that makes release planning real.
Who This Is For
Organizations running multiple teams or programs where "agile" happened at the team level but nobody coordinated it across teams - so every release date is still a negotiation.
Signs You Need This
- Nobody can give a release date with confidence, and it is always a guess dressed up as a commitment
- Dependencies between teams surface mid-sprint instead of during planning
- Status reporting is manual, and leadership gets a different picture from every team lead
- Teams commit to more than their actual capacity. No one has a shared understanding of capacity and throughput.
- Delivery slowdowns keep tracing back to unclear scope and inconsistent quality gates.
Our Approach
Assess
Understand and assess the current ways of working, including planning cadence, dependency tracking, and delivery metrics.
Design
Build a shared delivery operating model like planning cadence, dependency-management practice, escalation paths, risk management, and clear decision-making policies.
Pilot
Run the model with one program or team set through a real planning and release cycle, not a simulation.
Scale
Extend it to additional teams and programs, adjusted for what the pilot actually taught us.
Coach & Transition
Stay on for coaching and pulse checks and transition to new ways of working.
What Changes
- A shared, visible dependency-tracking mechanism.
- A regular planning cadence
- A small set of predictability metrics, reported the same way by every team, every time
- Less release variance
Questions
Our teams are already agile - why bring in an outside delivery advisor instead of hiring another delivery or program manager?
A program manager works inside your current model, chasing status within the system as it exists. I'm here to change the system - the cadence, the escalation paths, the metrics — and then leave. If what you actually need is another person running the current process, you don't need me; you need that hire.
How long until we see fewer missed dates - what's the ROI timeline?
You should see the first honest, capacity-based plan by the end of the pilot phase — typically one full planning and release cycle. Measurable improvement in planned-versus-actual variance shows up over two to three cycles after that, once the dependency-tracking and cadence changes have run enough times to be trusted rather than tolerated.