360° Programme & Project Health Check
An independent diagnostic across six critical dimensions of your programme. We find what internal teams are too close — or too pressured — to see, then give you the evidence to act.
The Diagnostic
Six interconnected dimensions that determine whether a programme delivers — or stalls. Every one of them matters. When even one fails, the others follow.
COG 01
Is the programme solving the right problem? We test alignment between strategic intent and what the programme is actually delivering — including what it has quietly dropped.
COG 02
Are decisions being made on evidence, or politics? We assess whether the right work is in flight, the right work is being protected, and the right work has been deferred.
COG 03
Are the mechanics sound? Velocity, dependency management, resourcing, risk tracking — we go beneath the RAG status to what is actually happening on the ground.
COG 04
Is accountability real or performative? We examine whether decision-making forums are empowered to act, or just venues for reporting what leadership wants to hear.
COG 05
Will anyone actually use what you're building? Business readiness, change management, training — we test whether the organisation is being carried with the programme or left behind.
COG 06
Can you demonstrate the value? We assess whether benefits are defined, owned, tracked, and — critically — whether anyone will still be accountable for them after the programme closes.
The Process
A structured, time-bounded engagement that respects your team's capacity whilst still getting to the truth.
Pre-Discovery Questionnaire
You complete a structured briefing document. We arrive informed, not blank-slate. Your team's time is not wasted on orientation.
Discovery Call
Scoping session with the commissioning stakeholder. We agree scope, access, boundaries, and what a successful outcome looks like.
Active Fieldwork
Interviews, documentation review, and observation across all six cogs. We go wherever the evidence leads, and we read what the RAG reports don't say.
Authority Asset
A scored, evidenced PDF report across all six dimensions. Designed to be placed in front of a board or audit committee without further translation.
Stakeholder Debrief
A structured readout with the commissioning stakeholder and — where appropriate — the wider leadership team. We stay in the room for the hard questions.
Evidenced Delivery
Three examples of programmes where independent scrutiny changed the trajectory.
Leeds Building Society
Eight weeks behind schedule on arrival. The programme had stalled in the dependency between waterfall governance and an agile delivery team neither side understood. We diagnosed the fault line, rebuilt the coordination model, and transitioned the programme mid-flight.
Delivered on time — first among all suppliers
Betfred / Sharp Gaming
3.5 million customer accounts to migrate. The programme lacked a dependency model robust enough to sequence the work safely. We built the governance framework, closed the dependency gaps, and managed the migration to completion with lower-than-projected service disruption.
3.5m accounts migrated successfully
The Co-operative Bank
250,000 mortgage accounts. A £100m regulatory programme running against a fixed regulator deadline. We identified a revised delivery approach that cut six months from the original timeline without compromising the regulatory standard — and won the argument in front of the board.
6 months saved. Regulatory standard maintained.
Independent Voices
Geoff has an exceptional ability to get to the root cause of a problem quickly. He doesn't just report what's wrong — he provides the evidence and the path forward in a way that leadership can act on immediately.
Iain McCormack
Head of Projects & Change, Betfred · 2022
What set Geoff apart was his ability to hold the mirror up to a complex programme without alienating the team. The Health Check gave us clarity we simply didn't have before — and the board took notice.
Tom Romer
Chief Architect, DXC Technology (LBS account) · 2020
Geoff's diagnostic identified issues we had been circling around for months. His report was direct, evidenced, and — crucially — credible enough to take to senior stakeholders without further qualification.
Karl Lucas
Head of Live Service, DXC Technology (LBS account) · 2020
Next Step
A Discovery Call takes 45 minutes. You'll leave with a clear picture of scope, process, and what an independent Health Check would surface in your programme.