When a programme starts to slip: RED.
A senior red team for programmes rated amber or red. We look in from the outside, with no camp to belong to and no delivery contract to protect – and tell you how things really stand. Courteous in manner, unambiguous in substance.
Three letters, one clear heading.
Reveal · Week 1
Facts first, opinions later. Documents, interviews and data, plus a tool-assisted health check across scope, plan, architecture, governance, suppliers and finance.
Evaluate · Week 2
Separating symptoms from causes – and delivery problems from decision problems. With options, a re-baselined business case, a risk register and a go/no-go that will hold.
Direct · Weeks 3–4
Recovery roadmap, re-plan, governance reset and the quick wins that rebuild confidence. If you wish, we take the controls ourselves.
When to call us
Now, at the latest. Sooner is cheaper.
- Milestones slip, the budget overruns, the scope keeps growing – and nobody in the building quite believes in the go-live any more.
- You and your supplier are locked in a long rally: both sides are right, and the programme is standing still.
- The steering committee has lost confidence and needs an outside view that owes nothing to either side.
Start small. Think big anyway.
Each stage stands on its own – and is credited against the next. After every step, the decision is yours again.
RED Pulse
The quick look before things tip over – or a second opinion when someone has already looked. You come away with a picture of the situation, a root-cause hypothesis and a direction.
Fixed priceRED Diagnostic
The full red-team assessment with a board-ready recovery plan. And where it is the honest answer, a reasoned recommendation to stop or restructure.
Fixed priceRED + Recovery Lead
Whoever makes the diagnosis also oversees the treatment: interim leadership through the recovery to an orderly handback – no loss of knowledge, the same people throughout.
Day rate or milestoneRED + Success Fee
We put our fee where our mouth is: a reduced base, plus a share of the value demonstrably realised. What counts as success is agreed before we begin.
Base + success shareTerms on request. Detailed service descriptions are available as PDFs, in English or German.
Why us, of all people?
rescueRED
Your own client portal with dashboard, findings and documents. You see the same evidence we do, while we work – not just at the final meeting.
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Programme wobbling? Within a week, you’ll know why.
And what to do next. The RED Pulse is the shortest route to an honest answer.