What people actually use it for.

Eight situations, described the way they get described on a call. Find the one that sounds like your week, then watch the agent do something about it on a real workbook.

01

You have been handed something already in trouble.

“It has been red for two months and nobody can tell me why.”

Program rescueReplanAny industry
What it does about it
  • Rebuilds the whole program from what is actually there, not from the last status deck
  • Names every outcome with no owner, no date, or a date that contradicts another one
  • Gives you one page of what is really blocking the date, on day two
What you end up with

A workbook you can take into the steering committee the same week.

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02

You spend your week asking people where things stand.

“Half my job is chasing sixteen people for an update they already know.”

Weekly statusDistributed teamsAny industry
What it does about it
  • Emails each person only their own items, at eight, with why each one matters
  • Takes the answer in one tap, from the email, with nothing to log into
  • Says nothing at all to the people who have nothing to answer
What you end up with

Status that came from the people doing the work, the morning you read it.

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03

You find out in month three what went wrong in month one.

“Nobody told me the dependency moved until it was too late to react.”

Early warningGovernanceMulti-workstream
What it does about it
  • Reads every row before eight and runs fifty-two checks over it
  • Catches the two dates that cannot both be true, the day they stop agreeing
  • Keeps asking about the same thing until somebody actually answers
What you end up with

The slip arrives on the morning it happens, with the reason attached.

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04

Discovery is going to take a quarter you do not have.

“We are six weeks in and still arguing about the process area list.”

Programme startFit gapVendor or custom
What it does about it
  • Builds departments, process areas, outcomes, owners and dates from a conversation
  • Produces a current-versus-future fit gap, with each gap linked to what it blocks
  • Starts from the model where one exists, and from a baseline where none does
What you end up with

The artefact the workshops were meant to produce, before they would have finished.

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05

You cannot see what is really standing between you and go live.

“Everything says green and I still do not believe the date.”

CutoverGo live readinessCompliance dates
What it does about it
  • Holds dependencies as a real graph, so a gap with no date still blocks what waits on it
  • Refuses to treat an outcome as done when nothing evidences it
  • Traces the ripple from one late item all the way to the go live date
What you end up with

A date you can defend, and the exact chain that threatens it.

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06

One person is carrying the program and nobody has noticed.

“If she takes leave in March, I genuinely do not know what happens.”

CapacityKey person riskResourcing
What it does about it
  • Reads load off the plan itself rather than a timesheet nobody fills in
  • Flags the items with no cover, and the people with nothing to escalate to
  • Shows what stops moving if any one person is away for a week
What you end up with

The single points of failure, named, before they become an incident.

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07

The steering pack eats your Sunday.

“I rebuild the same deck every week from numbers that have already moved.”

Steering committeeExecutive reportingPMO
What it does about it
  • Writes the pack from the plan itself, so the numbers cannot disagree with it
  • Separates where it stands from what moved and what you have to decide
  • Names each decision with who owns it and what it is blocking
What you end up with

Friday’s pack, already written, from the same rows as the plan.

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08

Things go quiet, and quiet gets mistaken for fine.

“It fell off the log three weeks ago and nobody picked it back up.”

EscalationRAIDHypercare
What it does about it
  • Runs whether anyone opens it or not, every working morning
  • Advances an escalation clock that only a real answer resets
  • Remembers the thing raised in discovery that still has no disposition
What you end up with

Nothing drops off the list because a week went by.

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None of these quite it?

They are the eight that come up most, not a list of what it can do. If your week looks like something else, tell me about it and I will say honestly whether this helps.

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