Performance & Direction Assessment | Software Consulting
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Make software performance and product direction economically visible.

I help organizations identify where value is lost across product and delivery — and what to fix first.

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The Problem

Most organizations don’t lack talent or effort. They lack clarity about where value is lost.

Typical symptoms:

  • High engineering output, low business impact
  • Too many initiatives, unclear priorities
  • Delivery metrics without decision value
  • Product teams optimizing locally, losing globally

If this feels familiar, execution is not the root problem. Visibility is.

Core Offering

Performance & Direction Assessment

A focused, executive-level assessment to make inefficiencies, misalignment, and lost capacity visible — before investing in change.

This assessment looks across:

  • Product direction and prioritization
  • Delivery performance and flow
  • Work-in-progress, dependencies, and rework
  • Tooling and process reality
  • Qualitative signals from key stakeholders

What you get:

  • A ranked set of improvement levers
  • Clear decision support for leadership
  • Benchmark-based context to understand where you stand
  • A concise, management-ready results presentation
The outcome is not a report. It is clarity about where to act — and where not to.
ROI & Impact

The assessment typically reveals:

Hidden capacity loss

Significant capacity lost to misalignment and excessive WIP

Structural causes

Root causes of slow delivery and low predictability

System-wide impact

Decisions that appear rational locally but destroy value globally

Even small, focused changes often free up the equivalent of 1–2 FTE per team — without adding people or tools.

How It Works

Clear process, focused outcome

1

Data intake and targeted interviews

Gather context and understand current state

2

Analysis and benchmark comparison

Identify patterns and compare to industry standards

3

Synthesis and prioritization

Rank findings by impact and feasibility

4

Results presentation

Present findings and facilitate decision discussion

What Happens After

The assessment stands on its own.

If needed, I support:

Only if it makes sense.

Who This Is For

This work is for organizations that:

This is for you if you:

  • Build and operate complex software systems
  • Feel busy, but not effective
  • Want clarity before committing to change

This is not for you if you’re looking for:

  • Tool rollouts
  • Framework coaching
  • Activity without decision ownership
About the Approach

Analysis-first, outcome-focused

I work analysis-first. Not to optimize delivery for its own sake, but to make product and engineering decisions economically sound. The goal is not more output. The goal is better outcomes.

If you want clarity before change, let’s talk.

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