Expert Product Transformation Consulting
  • Award Winning Large-Scale Global Transformation
    for Large Financial Services Companies
  • Regulated Industries
    30 Years Experience
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Program Evaluation, Analysis & Quality Assurance

Build confidence in outcomes. We help executives and product leaders see what’s working, what isn’t, and exactly how to raise delivery quality without slowing down. Our approach blends program evaluation, data-driven analysis, and pragmatic quality assurance to create a clear line of sight from strategy to shipped value.

What We Do

Program Evaluation

    • Assess alignment of portfolios, roadmaps, and budgets to business goals and regulatory obligations (financial services, insurance, government).
    • Evaluate governance health (decision rights, intake, HVHR prioritization, one-backlog discipline) and benefits realization.
    • Run maturity reviews across leadership, product, engineering, architecture, and delivery practices, pinpointing gaps with a prioritized improvement plan.

Analysis

    • Quantify flow: lead/cycle time, throughput, predictability, WIP, and bottlenecks across value streams.
    • Diagnose why value is delayed (date-driven planning, BA-led requirements, dependency knots, environment constraints).
    • Tie work to outcomes: value & risk definitions, HVHR quadrant usage, capacity modeling, and cost-of-delay insights.
    • Perform root-cause analysis on defects, rework, and production incidents; translate findings into actionable guardrails.

Quality Assurance

    • Establish a risk-based test strategy (manual + automation) with clear Definitions of Ready/Done and traceability from feature → story → test → evidence.
    • Stand up practical QA workflows: UAT coordination, SQL test plans and evidence capture (e.g., in Targetprocess), defect taxonomy, and “shift-left” prevention checks.
    • Create compliance-ready artifacts and audit trails without adding ceremony: test plans, results, and release gates mapped to controls.

What You Get (Deliverables)

    • Executive Diagnostic & Roadmap: a concise readout with heatmaps, risks, and a 60–90 day improvement plan.
    • KPI & Quality Dashboard: cycle/lead time, predictability, escaped defects, change failure rate, MTTR, DRE.
    • Quality Playbook: test strategy, environments, data, traceability model, acceptance criteria templates, and evidence standards.
    • Operating Guardrails: HVHR prioritization guide, one-backlog policy, intake criteria, and release readiness checklist.

How We Work (Fast and Practical)

    1. Discovery (2–3 weeks): interviews, artifact review, metrics pull, sample audit of work items and releases.
    2. Readout & Plan: executive briefing with prioritized recommendations tied to measurable outcomes.
    3. Enablement & Assurance: implement guardrails, dashboards, and QA flow; coach leaders and teams; set up quarterly assurance reviews.

Results You Can Expect

    • Faster, more predictable delivery (shorter cycle time, tighter P50/P85).
    • Fewer escaped defects and lower rework through prevention-first practices.
    • Clear value alignment via HVHR prioritization and one-backlog discipline.
    • Audit-ready evidence with no extra bureaucracy, just good engineering hygiene.

Ready to assess your program with audit-grade clarity and improve quality without slowing delivery?
Book a Transformation Diagnostic.