Independent Delivery Assurance

Independent review of high-risk IT initiatives.

  • Continue, course-correct, or cancel — with evidence the board can defend.
  • Board-ready brief in 2–6 weeks — confidential, off-the-record interviews, written outputs only.
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Delivery Health Scorecard Program: Core Banking Modernization · Phase: Build · Reporting Date: May 13, 2026 EXECUTIVE VIEW Week 24 of 52 PHASE PROGRESS Discovery 82% Build 59% Test 24% Cutover Not started DECISION CONFIDENCE MONITOR Build momentum stalling. Test environment dependencies unconfirmed. Recommended: independent oversight before next steering committee. DELIVERY DIMENSIONS 01 Schedule Realism Critical path baselined. No slip in last 14 days. CREDIBLE 02 Governance Decision rights matrix undated. Owner unclear. MONITOR 03 Risk Control Top 5 risks logged. Mitigation actions stale. MONITOR 04 Dependencies 3 of 7 vendor inputs late. Test env. unconfirmed. ELEVATED KEY FINDING Approvals exist. The names behind them don't match the risk carried. Independent oversight recommended before the next gate decision. IT Delivery Assurance www.itdeliveryassurance.com 613-600-2803 · sz@premiumframework.ca
RESTORATION NARRATIVE From reported status to defensible control. 01 Decision Gap Reported status diverges from delivery reality. Approvals exist; the names behind them don't match the risk. ELEVATED 02 Decision Independent review surfaces what status reporting missed. Options laid out for the executive, with evidence. DECIDE 03 Delivery Course correction agreed and owned. Decision rights restored. Critical path rebaselined where required. EXECUTE 04 Control Governance signal restored. Confidence in the path forward, defensible to the board. CREDIBLE The same four-stage shape applies to every review — the brief lands the executive at stage 4 in 2–6 weeks.
Choose by situation

Five independent reviews — one per leadership decision.

Each review is scoped to a specific executive decision. Two to six weeks. Ends with a written brief the commissioning executive can act on directly — no slide deck, no readout theatre.

IT Delivery Health Check Most requested
A project is underway, but it's unclear whether it can credibly continue as planned.
Decision supported: Continue as-is, or intervene now.
Project Recovery Diagnostic Most requested
A project is delayed or under scrutiny. Leadership needs a clear recovery path.
Decision supported: Recover, rebaseline, or stop.
Delivery Governance Assurance
Governance structures exist, but it's unclear whether delivery is actually under control.
Decision supported: Are governance and decision rights sufficient?
Portfolio Risk Assurance
Multiple initiatives compete for resources. It's unclear where risk and priority truly sit.
Decision supported: Where should leadership focus next?
Vendor Contract Assurance
A vendor is delivering critical work, but performance and alignment ahead of renewal are uncertain.
Decision supported: Renew, renegotiate, or replace.
Selected engagements

Two recent reviews.

Each engagement is scoped to a specific executive decision. Below: the situation, the question asked, and the decision the brief supported.

Financial ServicesIT Delivery Health Check
$18M CRM transformation reporting "green" for nine consecutive months.
Group COO commissioned an independent Rapid Delivery Validation with an imminent launch gate. Operational indicators had begun diverging from reported status. Engagement question: can this program land safely from where it sits, and if so, on what conditions?
Engagement
Rapid Delivery Validation
Duration
2 weeks
Decision supported
Hold or release launch gate
HealthcareProject Recovery Diagnostic
~$68M EHR + clinical-workflow program after two missed go-lives.
Regional multi-hospital network, 18 months into a 32-month program. New CIO inheriting the program from a predecessor, CFO under board pressure ahead of a fiscal-year review. Engagement question: can this program still be recovered, and if so, on what conditions?
Engagement
Recovery Diagnostic
Duration
4 weeks
Decision supported
Recover, rebaseline, or stop
How we work

Five dimensions of execution. Same five, every review.

Every engagement runs the same protocol: 10–20 stakeholder interviews, review of key artefacts (status reports, RAIDs, vendor contracts, decision logs), and test of stated assumptions against delivery reality. Findings are evaluated against five dimensions:

01
Schedule realism
Credibility of milestones and timelines, aligned to scope, dependencies, and forward-looking resource capacity.
02
Governance effectiveness
Decision forums, escalation paths, accountability, and financial oversight including budget alignment and cost control.
03
Risk control
Quality, visibility, and active management of risks and issues, with mitigation effectiveness and clear ownership.
04
Dependencies
Identification, ownership, and active management of cross-team, vendor, and integration dependencies.
05
Delivery readiness
Preparedness for upcoming milestones — planning completeness, resourcing, traceability, quality assurance.
Key finding pattern
Approvals exist. The names behind them don't match the risk carried.
The most common pattern we surface — and the one that decides whether independent oversight is needed before the next gate.
Three commitments

How findings reach you, and how they don't.

The same three rules apply to every engagement — they shape what gets said, to whom, in what form, and on what timeline.

Commitment 1
Confidential by default
Findings delivered only to the commissioning executive. Off-the-record interviews. No copy circulated without your written direction. NDA on file before the first conversation.
Commitment 2
Plain-language written brief
Written brief, not a slide deck. Diagnosis, options, and recommendation in plain language a non-technical board member can read in 20 minutes.
Commitment 3
Decision-ready in 2–6 weeks
Engagements end at the decision the executive needs to make. No retainers, no rolling advisory creep, no obligation to engage further work.
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