What is our Free Project X-Ray?

Ever Feel Like Your Project Is “Mostly Fine”… But Also Kind of on Fire? 🔥 That’s exactly why we created the Free Project X-Ray.

Most leaders don’t lack data. You’re likely drowning in decks, Jira boards, vendor updates, and weekly status calls that somehow say a lot—and not quite enough.

What you do lack is a clear, honest picture of:

• What’s actually broken

• How bad it really is

• And what decisions will move the needle this month, not “sometime this year”

  
  

That’s where Project X-Ray comes in. Think of Project X-Ray as a facts-first health check for your most critical initiative. It’s a complimentary assessment across four core dimensions:

• Scope – What you’re trying to deliver (and how realistic that still is)

• Schedule – Your dates, milestones, and how they hold up against reality

• Resources – Do you have the right people, in the right places, with enough time?

• Budget – Burn vs. plan and where money is quietly leaking

You walk away with:

• Clearly identified issues and risks

• A realistic path to green

• 3–5 concrete decisions to stop the bleeding

Delivered as a focused 45-minute readout. No fluff. No obligation. This isn’t a generic maturity model or a 40-page consulting deck. Project X-Ray is built to answer the questions executives actually care about:

“Are we going to make it?” “What’s in our way?” “What are our options?”

Here’s what we unpack:

Scope Reality Check

We look at what’s been promised for this release (or phase) and ask:

• Is this still achievable with current budget and timeline?

• Where has scope quietly expanded?

• What’s truly must-have vs nice-to-have

  
  

You’ll see specific recommendations for right-sizing: what to keep, what to defer, and what to kill.

Schedule & Timeline Assessment

Instead of “we’re yellow, trending green,” we dig into:

• Upcoming milestones and whether they’re defendable or wishful

• Critical dependencies (vendors, integrations, upstream teams)

• Where slippage is already baked in—but not yet acknowledged

You get a view of probable dates, not just planned dates—and the trade-offs to hold or adjust them.

Resource & Operating Model Check

We zoom in on how the work is actually getting done:

• Are the same 2–3 people critical to everything?

• Is ownership clear across teams and vendors?

• Is your operating rhythm (standups, steerco, decision forums) helping—or slowing you down?

  
  

You’ll get practical recommendations like:“Move this workstream under X,”“Consolidate these meetings,”“Assign a single owner for Y dependency.”

Budget & Burn Insight

We’re not your finance team—but we are looking for patterns that burn cash:

• Are you spending against clear outcomes or just time and materials?

• Are change requests aligned with value—or just noise?

• Is vendor work still mapped to what matters for go-live?

  
  

You’ll see where budget is fueling progress vs where it’s just keeping motion going.

How the Free Project X-Ray Works

We’ve designed this to be simple, fast, and minimally disruptive.

Step 1: Quick Intake (30–45 Minutes)

We start with a short working session where we:

• Clarify your top goals for the project

• Align on the current scope, timeline, and budget baseline

• Agree on what “success” looks like for you (hint: it’s not always just hitting a date)

  
  

We’ll also ask for a few key artifacts:Roadmap, current plan, latest status report(s), vendor SOWs, and RAID/issue logs if you have them.

Step 2: Behind-the-Scenes X-Ray

You go back to your day job. We do the digging.

We review your materials through the lens of:

• Scope vs. capacity

• Dates vs. dependencies

• Budget vs. burn

• Governance vs. reality

  
  

We’re looking for contradictions and pressure points:Where the story in the slides doesn’t quite match the story in the plan or the vendor contract.

Step 3: 45-Minute Readout

We reconvene for a focused, exec-friendly readout:

You’ll get:

• A simple view of overall project health

• Top issues and risks, explained in business terms

• A proposed “path to green” with realistic options

• 3–5 decisions we recommend you make in the next 30 days

You can invite whoever you’d like: project leadership, sponsors, vendors—your call.

What Happens After the X-Ray?

Totally up to you.

You can:

• Take the findings and run with them internally

• Ask us to help stabilize delivery (Delivery Stabilization)

• Bring us in for hands-on Program Management

• Or plug us in as a lightweight PMO Lite to bring structure across multiple initiatives

The point of Project X-Ray isn’t to trap you in a long engagement.It’s to give you clear visibility and options, so you can decide what support (if any) you actually need.

Who This Is For (And Who It’s Not For)

Project X-Ray is a great fit if:

• You own or sponsor a high-stakes initiative (digital, retail, tech, transformation)

• You’re hearing “we’re working on it” more than specific dates and outcomes

• You suspect something’s off—but aren’t getting a clear story

• You want a neutral, facts-first view without internal politics attached

It’s not a great fit if:

• Your project is still an idea on a whiteboard

• You’re looking for a full-blown multi-month consulting assessment

• You have no intention of changing anything, regardless of what we find 😉

Why Is It Free? What’s the Catch?

Short answer: There isn’t one.

The Free Project X-Ray lets us:

• Add value immediately, not after a 12-week discovery

• Show you how we think, how we communicate, and how we work

• Decide together if there’s a good fit for deeper support

  
  

Some teams use the X-Ray, make a few key decisions, and stabilize things on their own. Awesome. Others realize, “We need help landing this plane,” and that’s where Delivery Stabilization, Program Management, or PMO Lite come in.

Either way, you walk out with clarity and a plan—not a vague sense of dread and another slide deck.

If Your Gut Says “Something’s Off,” You’re Probably Right

Most executives can feel when a project is drifting long before the metrics admit it.

The Free Project X-Ray gives you:

• A clear, honest snapshot of where you really stand

• The trade-offs you’re already making—whether you’ve named them or not

• The next 3–5 moves that will matter most

  
  

Because “We’ll figure it out” is not a strategy.But getting the facts—and acting on them—is.

xoxo,

Bridget & Eric