The scope
What the programme actually is, and what it is not, written down before anyone mobilises.
Programmes and Asset Systems
Programmes and Asset Systems
Initiation and Discovery.
Know what you’re building, before the money commits.
The service
Working out what a programme really is before the money commits: the scope, the approvals between decision and build, and when the answer is not yet. For a developing business case, funding with nothing mobilised, or a failed earlier attempt.
What you get
What lands on your desk.
The approvals
The gates between a decision and a build, and who sits at each.
The conditions
Those under which the answer is not yet, stated up front rather than discovered later.
Who you’ll speak to
Mike Brown
Co-founder & Chief Operating Officer · CEng MICE
A Chartered Civil Engineer with over 17 years delivering complex change in safety-critical, asset-intensive environments, including national digital, data and monitoring transformations at Network Rail. Mike leads our programme and asset systems work.
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Other services in Programmes and Asset Systems.
- Asset System Decision The full cycle, from the client’s chair.
- Technology Adoption Proven technology, accepted into service.
How to buy
Fixed before you sign.
Fixed price
Every service is fixed once scoped at a scoping call, before you sign.
- Budget certainty for approval
- We carry the overrun risk
- Payment tied to delivery
Time and materials
For evolving scope or high-speed delivery.
- Pivot priorities without renegotiation
- Start immediately
- Scale resource to real demand
Hybrid
Fixed price for the core deliverables, time and materials for what evolves.
- Certainty for the roadmap
- Room for change
- One contract, two modes
Frameworks
Public sector clients can appoint us through the SparkDPS, AIDPS and SpaceDM frameworks.
Accreditations
Cyber Essentials · RISQS · JOSCAR
Independence
On this work we take no commission, hold no reseller or partner agreements, and our fee does not change with the recommendation.
Scope the Initiation and Discovery.
A short call to pin down what you need to decide, and by when. You leave with the shape of the engagement, fixed before you sign.