Decision workshop
Facilitated sessions to align stakeholders, surface constraints, and leave with a written decision record.
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IT Consulting
Technology strategy, due diligence, architecture review, and modernization roadmaps.
Overview
How we approach it consulting.
Consulting that ends in a PDF nobody opens wastes the budget twice: once on the deck, again when the team guesses at execution. We run workshops and architecture reviews that produce decisions, sequenced roadmaps, and artifacts your people can start Monday.
Whether you’re choosing build vs buy, modernizing a platform, or untangling integrations, we pressure-test constraints with your stakeholders and leave a 90-day action plan — optionally staying to build what we recommended.
The point
A clear technical direction your team can execute — and a partner if you want us to build it.
Deliverables
Concrete decisions, not just slide decks.
Every engagement leaves leadership with a clear technical direction, sequenced recommendations, and artifacts your team can execute.
- Architecture review with prioritized findings and risks
- Modernization or build-vs-buy roadmap with sequencing
- Stack, vendor, and platform decision records
- Workshop outputs and stakeholder alignment notes
- Target-state diagrams and integration contracts
- 90-day action plan your team can start without us
Engagement Model
Workshop the problem, assess the estate, roadmap the work, or keep advisory cadence.
Architecture assessment
Deep review of systems, risks, and options — prioritized findings your team can act on immediately.
Roadmap package
Sequenced modernization or platform plan with cost bands, dependencies, and a 90-day start plan.
Advisory retainer
Ongoing architecture and vendor counsel so major choices don’t wait for the next big project kickoff.
Timeline
From workshop and evidence to an executable 90-day plan.
Days 1–3
Stakeholder workshops and access
Clarify decisions needed, pull system access and docs, and map who must agree for the recommendation to stick.
Days 4–10
Assessment and evidence
Review architecture, ops metrics, vendor contracts, and risk — with findings ranked by impact and urgency.
Days 11–15
Options and roadmap
Present trade-offs, target state, and a sequenced plan with decision records leadership can fund.
Week 3+
Handover or build kickoff
Leave the 90-day plan with your team — or convert the first slice into a delivery engagement.
What we need from you
Access and honesty so advice isn’t guesswork.
Sponsors, system access, and real constraints beat aspirational wish lists.
- Executive or technical sponsor who can make or escalate decisions
- Read access to architecture docs, repos, and key production metrics
- Vendor contracts and known compliance or budget constraints
- Calendar time with ops, product, and security stakeholders
- Clarity on decisions already made versus still open
Common mistakes we help avoid
Consulting anti-patterns that freeze organizations.
We structure work to avoid decks that sit unread and roadmaps nobody funds.
- Producing recommendations without naming owners or next actions
- Ignoring operational reality — on-call pain, debt, and skill gaps
- Build-vs-buy debates driven by vendor demos instead of constraints
- Roadmaps measured in years with no fundable 90-day slice
- Leaving without decision records, so debates restart next quarter
FAQs
Answers before we get on a call.
Is this only strategy, or can you implement too?+
Both. Many clients keep us for the assessment and then convert the first roadmap slice into a build or embedded engagement.
How long does a typical assessment take?+
Most architecture assessments and roadmaps land in two to three weeks, depending on access and stakeholder availability.
Will you work with our existing vendors?+
Yes. We evaluate fit against your constraints — including keeping a vendor when switching would cost more than it saves.
What do we walk away with?+
Prioritized findings, decision records, target-state diagrams, and a 90-day action plan your team can start without us.