Keep the program decision-ready.
Executive steering committees, status discipline, RAID and decision logs, PMO stand-up, and project controls that turn chaos into a program leadership can actually steer.
Program health at a glance
Six artifacts that keep leadership steering, not guessing.
Every item below is a real deliverable I bring on day one, not a promise to figure it out later. Here is what each one looks like.
Boardroom-ready in one pass
The narrative, the ask, the decision, built so executives read it in 5 minutes and leave having decided something.
No more watermelon status
Green on the outside, red in the middle is how programs die quietly. My reporting shows the real color and the reason behind it.
Who decides what, and when
Decision rights, escalation paths, and a cadence that holds. Clear enough that nobody has to ask who owns the call.
Stand up the PMO in weeks
RAID log, decision log, plan templates, and reporting rhythm, a working PMO out of the box, not a 6-month build.
One screen leadership trusts
Milestones, burn, risk, and readiness in a view your sponsors open on their own instead of waiting for the deck.
Catch slippage before it costs
Change control, budget tracking, and milestone gates that surface the problem while there is still time to fix it.
The governance cadence, on repeat.
Not a document that sits in SharePoint. A rhythm that runs every week and rolls up every month.
Standups & RAID
Blockers surfaced and owned before they compound.
Status & controls
True-color reporting, budget and change tracked against plan.
Workstream review
Leads accountable to milestones, dependencies reconciled.
Steering committee
Decisions made, risks escalated, the date defended or moved with evidence.
Stage gates
No phase advances until readiness is proven, not assumed.
Governance is the part every failed program skipped.
I have run the steering committee that had to tell a CFO the date was moving, and the one that caught a broken integration before it hit payroll. The artifacts on this page came out of those rooms, not a template library.
Workday-deep and platform-agnostic. The tools change. The discipline that keeps a program honest does not.
Get the PMO & Governance Starter Kit
A sample steering deck, RAID log, and status template you can use this quarter. DM me on LinkedIn and I will send it over.
Program feel out of control?
Start with a candid program assessment, fast, independent, and pointed at the decisions in front of you. Three complimentary 30-minute reviews open each month.