Off schedule isn’t off track — if you correct it now.
When a project drifts — slipped dates, rosy status over troubled work, vendors out of sync — we diagnose the real state, rebuild the plan around reality, and drive it back to predictable delivery.
Most large IT projects miss. The causes are correctable.
Requirements, sequencing, vendor accountability, stakeholder alignment — drift is a management problem before it’s a technical one. That’s why it’s fixable.
How a correction actually works.
Diagnose the real state
Not the status report — the work. We confirm requirements with every party (client teams, vendors, Epic or platform teams), inventory what’s actually built and tested, and surface the dependencies nobody wrote down. Days to a couple of weeks, and leadership finally sees the true picture.
Re-plan around reality
A schedule rebuilt on actual capacity and confirmed requirements — usually anchored by a tracker that makes scope, owners, and readiness visible per application, per team, per vendor. Trackers we’ve built this way have significantly improved project performance on $100M-scale implementations.
Drive the recovery
Vendors put on schedule with their build and test environments, milestones worked application by application, issues escalated and closed — with honest weekly status leadership can act on. Accountability is the deliverable.
Stabilize through go-live
Requirements updates, funding and schedule updates, monitoring and control, go-live and post–go-live optimization — stability starts with goals, then the details related to those goals, then monitoring and performance with proactive foresight and correction.
Corrections we’ve actually delivered.
Cogito, corrected three times
On three separate projects — including a $100M Epic implementation — we took over drifting Cogito analytics workstreams and drove build, sign-off, ETL, and strategy issues to resolution, through and beyond go-live.
OnBase across four Epic go-lives
A five-hospital academic medical center’s OnBase project was going to miss its Epic dates. We re-confirmed requirements across vendor, client, and Epic teams — and met every go-live, converting 20M+ documents along the way.
Third-party readiness, caught up
Contracts unexecuted, test environments missing, interface testing blocked. We built the tracker, drove vendors onto schedule, and course-corrected the project — twice, at two different organizations.
The 120-day readiness rescue
An acquisition’s Epic go-live was 120 days out with third-party access, security templates, and ServiceNow all unready. Per-application requirements confirmed, SSO and connectivity validated, security corrected, ServiceNow configured — ready on time.
Enterprise HL7 change, de-risked
A SER identifier digit change touched every integration in a six-hospital enterprise. We corrected the requirements, testing approach, and schedule — then validated 100+ systems and every HL7 message type.
Scope and schedule, reset
From a Philips Radiology Command Center to Epic test environments to regulatory quality reporting — when scope and schedule stopped matching reality, we reset both and completed the implementation.
Honest status. Real dates. A project that lands.
A diagnostic, fast
Days to two weeks for a true-state read: what’s built, what’s blocked, what the schedule really is, and what it takes to recover.
A tracker leadership trusts
Scope, owners, vendor readiness, and risk in one view — the same instrument that has turned around $100M-scale projects.
Senior hands, not observers
The people running the correction have delivered these exact projects — Epic, OnBase, Cogito, integration, infrastructure — so nothing gets learned on your dime.
The earlier you correct, the cheaper it is.
If the status reports feel greener than the project, that instinct is usually right. A short diagnostic settles it either way.