# Proactive Delivery Risk Mitigation

*The board just asked whether you're on top of delivery risk. Could you show them?*

Most programmes can't. Not because the risk isn't known, but because it lives in people's heads, spreadsheets and amber ratings nobody can evidence. We make it visible, scored and owned, in two weeks, at a fixed price.

## An independent read on your delivery risk, in two weeks

We assess your programme across the six places delivery risk concentrates,
working alongside your team for two weeks at a fixed price. Every risk is
surfaced, scored against consistent criteria and given an owner, and you keep
a board-ready summary and a costed mitigation roadmap your own people can run.

The engagement is cooperative and non-intrusive: no live system access, and no
disruption to delivery. You get an independent, strategic read of your
programme, and the evidence to show you're on top of its risk.

## Sound familiar?

When asked “are we on top of our delivery risk?”, the honest answer on most programmes is “we think so”. None of these mean yours is failing. They mean its risk is invisible, and invisible risk doesn't announce itself. It turns up at cutover, or in an incident.


- **Testing happens, nobody governs it**: Quality status lives in tickets and in one overloaded person's head.
- **Amber, on what evidence?**: Your steerco sees the ratings. Nobody could say what sits behind them.
- **A fixed date, no independent read**: Go-live is set, and nobody outside the programme has checked whether it will land.
- **Risks raised, rated, then parked**: They're owned on paper. Acting on them keeps losing to delivery pressure.

## Where delivery risk hides: a six-question self-check

Delivery risk concentrates in six places. These are the questions the assessment answers, and the ones to have in hand before the board asks. Tick the ones you could answer today.


- **Compliance and regulatory testing**: Could you evidence the change was tested against your regulatory obligations, not just against requirements?
- **Data validation and reconciliation**: When the data moves, can you prove the balances reconcile, or will you find out from a customer?
- **Risk-based and accelerated testing**: Is testing effort deliberately weighted toward your riskiest areas?
- **Performance and load**: Do you know the platform holds up on day-one volumes?
- **UAT and change readiness**: Is the business ready to accept and operate the change, not just the system ready to ship?
- **Integration and legacy validation**: While old and new run side by side, do you know they agree?

## What you get

Four artefacts, delivered in two weeks and built to outlast the engagement.

- **A prioritised delivery risk map**: Every finding is a scoped piece of work, mapped from the risk matrix and grounded in interviews with your own stakeholders.
- **A board-ready summary**: A version of the full findings written for your board: the artefact that gives the board confidence in your delivery.
- **A metrics baseline**: Measured at the start, so any mitigation has a starting line to be judged against.
- **A costed mitigation roadmap**: The roadmap draws on our wider delivery and quality frameworks, so your team can run the practice after we leave.

## Surface, identify, decide

Two weeks, fixed price, working alongside your team.

1. **Surface**: Scope and success metrics agreed with your key stakeholders, then the six-domain sweep. It surfaces the risks weekly catchups miss, while they're still cheap to address.
2. **Identify**: Every risk scored against consistent criteria, assigned an owner and connected to the work that mitigates it. The findings are explicit about what's healthy and what not to spend on.
3. **Decide**: The register converts into decisions. We walk the roadmap and board-ready summary through with your risk sponsor, and a named in-house owner takes the practice on.

## A fixed-price read your board can act on

- **2** weeks, fixed price. From kick-off to a board-ready read of your delivery risk.
- **6** domains swept. The places delivery risk concentrates, assessed in one pass.
- **87** risks surfaced at one bank. Each scored, owned and traced to stakeholder evidence.

## FAQ

**We already have a risk register. Why do we need you?**

A register tells you what your programme has already written down. The sweep is generative: at the bank above, most of the 87 risks we surfaced were not on the register when we arrived. And a register isn't a plan. The difference is between risks being tracked and risks being acted on.


**Won't you just find problems so you can sell us the fix?**

The assessment is scoped on a problem you've already named, the findings come from your own data, and the risk map explicitly de-recommends: it says what not to spend on as well as what to fix. The board-ready artefact is yours and keeps its value even if you never buy another day from us.


**How are you different from the Big Four?**

Two weeks, fixed price and senior people only. No procurement programme, no pyramid of juniors. Our incentives point the other way too: we actively de-recommend. The deliverable stands on its own, every finding scoped and costed, yours to run with or without us.


**What do you need from us?**

A named sponsor, your risk register and delivery exports, and interview time with your delivery leads. No live system access required.

## Not sure you're on top of delivery risk?

Talk to the Digizoo team through the contact form: https://www.digizoo.com.au/#contact