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IT consulting and strategy

Architecture reviews, build versus buy decisions and roadmaps for teams weighing options. Ends in a written recommendation with the tradeoffs stated plainly, including the case against our own recommendation.

Discuss this work

When to bring us in

If more than one of these is true, the engagement usually pays for itself in the first quarter.

  1. 01

    A decision has been open for a quarter because nobody owns the analysis.

  2. 02

    A vendor proposal needs a second opinion from someone with no stake in it.

  3. 03

    The current architecture works but nobody is confident it will next year.

  4. 04

    A board or investor wants a technology plan on paper.

What the engagement includes

  • Discovery

    Interviews with the people who use and maintain the systems, not just the people who own them.

  • System review

    Code, infrastructure and data flows examined directly rather than from a diagram.

  • Options analysis

    Two or three realistic paths with cost, risk and time to value for each.

  • Recommendation

    One recommended path, the reasoning, and the conditions under which we would change it.

  • Roadmap

    Sequenced work with dependencies, so the plan survives a change in priority.

  • Presentation

    A session with your team and, if useful, with your board.

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