Program Delivery Solutions: Drive Cloud Success through Unified with Enhanced Solutions

Built for the CIO or program sponsor with a Microsoft program that has consumed most of its budget, missed two milestones, and has a board update due. This engagement will accelerate recovery of a stalled Microsoft program and reduce the cost of finishing it.

Who this is for

Program sponsors holding a Microsoft initiative that is visibly in trouble. The pattern is consistent: the original plan was optimistic, the scope grew without the schedule moving, and the current status reporting has become a negotiation. The sponsor needs an independent read on what is real, followed by someone who will finish it. This is a fixed-scope recovery with a defined end state rather than open-ended capacity. The sponsor is carrying delivery risk on a program the board was told is on track.

What we deliver

• An independent program assessment in the first 15 days: actual versus reported completion, technical debt taken to hit earlier milestones, budget consumed against value delivered, and the specific reasons the program is behind, delivered without blame attached but without softening either.
• A replan against what is genuinely achievable, including the scope that should be cut, with the cost and consequence of each cut stated so the sponsor makes an informed decision rather than being handed a single option.
• Delivery of the agreed recovery plan to the defined end state, with our own delivery management and architecture, and a fixed price for the recovery scope so the program stops absorbing budget on an open-ended basis.
• A closing handover: documentation the operations team can actually use, a decision log covering the recovery, and a named end state that both parties agreed in advance so completion is not a negotiation either.

Outcomes our customers see

The first recovered milestone has been delivered within 30 days of takeover on 8 of the last 9 recovery engagements. One program at 140 percent of budget and 62 percent complete was closed to its revised end state for a further 22 percent of the original budget rather than the 90 percent the incumbent plan implied. Independent assessment at one customer found reported completion of 78 percent against an actual 41 percent, which changed the board decision from continue to replan within 15 days.

How this compares

The assessment is deliberately separable and short, because a sponsor in this position needs an independent number before they can commit to anything else, and tying that assessment to a large recovery contract compromises it. Recommending scope cuts is the other difference: the honest answer to most stalled programs is that some of the original scope was never going to be delivered for the money, and saying so is what makes the replan credible.

Architecture and Microsoft alignment

Recovery works within the Microsoft technology set the program already committed to, held against the Azure Cloud Adoption Framework or the Microsoft 365 adoption guidance as appropriate. Delivery tracking runs in Microsoft Planner and Project for the web with Power BI reporting to the sponsor. Where the assessment finds technical debt taken to hit earlier milestones, remediation of that debt is priced explicitly in the replan rather than absorbed silently, because it is usually the reason the later milestones will not land. Aligned to the Microsoft solution plays Drive Cloud Success through Unified with Enhanced Solutions and Migrate and Modernize Your Estate.

Plans

Plans, prices, and full scope per plan are on the Plans tab of this listing.

Prerequisites

Sponsor authority to change scope and plan, access to the incumbent delivery team and their artifacts, and acceptance that the assessment output is shared unedited with the sponsor. Where an incumbent partner is still engaged, a commercial position on their continued role is needed before the recovery plan starts.

Limitations

This is a fixed-scope recovery to an agreed end state, not ongoing delivery capacity, which is covered by the retained delivery offer. The assessment reports what it finds, including where the customer's own decisions contributed, and that is not negotiable in the deliverable.

How to buy

Buy through the Azure portal, using Get it in Azure portal on this listing, so the purchase is billed through your existing Microsoft agreement. Private offers on request.

Next step

Get it now in the Azure portal, or request a private offer if the scope or the price needs adjusting first.