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Program delivery · Program delivery leadership
Fractional program
delivery leadership.
For organizations where important work spans multiple teams, tools, and commitments, and where the current operating rhythm produces mid-cycle surprises instead of trustworthy plans.
Who it is for
Teams where important work spans more than one group, tool, or plan.
- Technology and operations leaders responsible for multi-team delivery
- Teams running quarterly or PI-based planning where dependencies keep surfacing after commitments are made
- Teams that need senior delivery ownership, not another status report
Situations I enter
When the plan and the organization are out of sync.
- 01Milestone dates conflict across boards, plans, and executive views
- 02Dependencies surface after teams have already committed
- 03Planning requires hero work from one or two people who hold the context
- 04Intake, prioritization, or governance creates bottlenecks before work can start
What I do
Hands-on leadership, clear scope.
Design the minimum viable operating model
Roadmaps, capacity, dependencies, release governance, and reporting, scoped to what the organization can sustain. Enough structure to make commitments realistic, not enough to slow delivery down.
Own the work through the transition
Fractional delivery means organizing and driving the work, not advising from the sidelines. Cadence, decision logs, escalation paths, and handoff to internal owners when the rhythm holds.
What changes
Results from recent delivery work.
Drawn from my résumé and field experience. Full employment history ↗
Fewer mid-cycle surprises
At Capstone, cross-team planning across roughly 10 teams reduced descoped or unplanned objectives from approximately 15-30 per PI to one, by making dependencies and capacity visible before commitments hardened.
Faster path from request to start
At First Tech Federal Credit Union, redesigned project-intake workflows reduced bottlenecks and improved initiation throughput by approximately 25%.
Shorter delivery cycles
At Allianz Technology, standardized delivery practices and improved backlog coordination contributed to an approximately 25% reduction in development time across distributed teams.
How engagement starts
Clear places to begin.
Each engagement has a defined scope, a clear price, and a sample of what you get. Most work starts with a Health Check or single-workflow diagnostic. Fractional leadership follows when the problem needs sustained ownership. See sample deliverables ↗
Most common starting point
Project Health Check
A concise, independent assessment of one important project for leaders who cannot get a trustworthy read on its health.
Sample deliverableIllustrative health assessment with findings, actions, and decision requests. ↗Workflow & Tool Diagnostic
A practical diagnosis of one workflow: ownership, handoffs, visibility, and whether the tool is the problem or the operating model around it.
Sample deliverableIllustrative diagnostic with workflow map, findings, and recommended path. ↗Fractional Delivery
Senior delivery leadership on a part-time basis: organizing the work, running cadence, and driving outcomes, not advising from the sidelines. About 10 hours per week, typically a fraction of the cost of a full-time hire or a traditional consulting engagement.
Sample deliverableIllustrative 90-day plan with phases, operating rhythm, and handoff package. ↗From $5,000/mo
Up to 10 hrs/week · 90-day term
Enough senior ownership to move a multi-team program forward. Not a retainer for slide decks.
Start this engagement ↗Related reading
Field notes on this work.
Program deliveryI removed stretch goals from PI planning↗Delivery systemsMost transformation problems are context problems↗Operating modelsThe case for a thinner operating system↗
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Let's talk about program delivery leadership.
Start with a Project Health Check if you want a defined first step, or email me with what is stuck and we will figure out the most useful path.