Executive sponsors and CIOs who suspect a technology program is in trouble — but receive consistently positive status from the program team — need an independent assessment that gives them an accurate picture of the program's actual delivery trajectory before it reaches a point where recovery options are foreclosed. Full On Consulting's program health check is an independent, rapid in-flight assessment of active technology programs — evaluating delivery performance, governance, vendor performance, financial trajectory, stakeholder engagement, and risk, and developing recovery options that give executive sponsors the information they need to make informed intervention decisions.
$40M+
In documented client savings through program delivery leadership and recovery
2-4 Weeks
Rapid health check turnaround — assessment findings delivered while recovery options are still open
Independent
Assessment conducted by practitioners with no stake in the program team's performance assessment
Recovery-Ready
Every health check includes recovery options — not just findings, but decisions executives can act on
What the Program Health Check Covers
Delivery Performance, Governance, Vendor Accountability, Financials & Recovery Planning
Delivery Performance Assessment
In-flight delivery performance assessment — evaluating the program's actual delivery performance against its baseline schedule, budget, and scope commitments. Earned value analysis, milestone variance review, and forecast-to-completion analysis that distinguishes recoverable delivery variance from unrecoverable overrun trajectories. Delivery assessment that identifies whether the program is on a trajectory to deliver its intended business outcome on the committed timeline and budget, or whether the trajectory has diverged from baseline in ways that require executive intervention.
Program Governance Review
Program governance effectiveness review — assessing the decision-making processes, escalation pathways, change control mechanisms, and status reporting structures that govern the program. Governance reviews that evaluate whether the program's governance model is adequate for its complexity: whether decisions are being made at the right level, whether change control is being enforced, whether escalation is occurring before issues become unrecoverable, and whether executive sponsors have the program visibility they need to make informed portfolio decisions.
Vendor & Integrator Performance Review
Technology vendor and systems integrator performance assessment — evaluating whether implementation partners, technology vendors, and third-party service providers are performing to their contractual commitments. Vendor performance review that identifies delivery gaps against contractual deliverables, assesses vendor capacity and capability relative to remaining program scope, and identifies the contract leverage points and commercial remedies available when vendor performance is contributing to program delivery risk.
Financial & Budget Review
Program financial review — assessing budget consumption relative to program delivery progress, identifying budget categories where spending is diverging from plan, and developing a revised budget forecast that reflects the program's actual trajectory rather than the original budget baseline. Financial review that provides executive sponsors with an honest forecast of program completion cost, the budget contingency remaining, and the financial implications of scope or timeline adjustments that might be under consideration.
Stakeholder & Organizational Readiness
Stakeholder engagement and organizational change readiness assessment — evaluating whether the program's stakeholder engagement model is maintaining the executive sponsorship, business unit engagement, and end-user adoption commitment required to deliver the program's intended business outcome. Change readiness assessment that identifies stakeholder groups at risk of disengagement, organizational resistance patterns that could affect deployment success, and the change management activities that are absent from the program plan but required for adoption.
Risk & Recovery Planning
Program risk assessment and recovery planning — identifying the current delivery risks that are not adequately mitigated in the active risk register, assessing the cumulative risk exposure across program workstreams, and developing the recovery options that would restore the program to a recoverable delivery trajectory. Recovery planning that presents executive sponsors with realistic options — scope reduction, timeline extension, resource augmentation, vendor remediation — with the cost, schedule, and risk implications of each.
What Makes Us Different
Why Our Program Health Checks Give Executives the Information They Need to Act
Independent Assessment — Not the Program Team
Program health checks conducted by the program's own governance team or the implementing vendor produce assessments that reflect the assessor's interest in the program's perceived health rather than its actual health. Full On Consulting's program health check is independent: conducted by practitioners with no stake in the program team's performance assessment, no commercial interest in the vendor's continued engagement, and no relationship with the executive sponsor that creates pressure to present findings more favorably than the evidence supports.
Recovery-Oriented, Not Just Diagnostic
Program health checks that identify what is wrong without developing actionable recovery options leave executive sponsors with an accurate description of a problem they cannot yet solve. Every Full On Consulting program health check includes a recovery options analysis: specific, sequenced actions that could restore the program to an acceptable delivery trajectory, with the realistic cost, schedule, and organizational implications of each option. Assessment that ends with a decision the executive sponsor can make, not a findings report that requires another engagement to produce options.
Vendor-Savvy Commercial Assessment
Program health checks that assess vendor performance without understanding the commercial and contractual context frequently misidentify vendor delivery gaps as organizational issues — or miss the commercial leverage available to enforce vendor performance. Our vendor performance assessment is conducted by practitioners who have managed enterprise technology contracts as CIOs and program leaders, who understand the difference between a deliverable gap and a scope dispute, and who can identify the specific contract remedies available to the organization when vendor performance is contributing to delivery risk.
Rapid Assessment — 2-4 Week Turnaround
Program health checks that take three months to complete are not useful for in-flight program intervention — the program continues consuming budget and accumulating delivery risk while the assessment is in progress. Full On Consulting delivers program health check findings in 2-4 weeks, with interim findings communicated to executive sponsors as they emerge rather than withheld until the final report. Rapid assessment that enables executive decision-making while the options are still open rather than after the situation has deteriorated further.
Featured Case Study
IT Transformation Program — $40M+ in Savings Through Program Delivery Governance and Recovery Leadership
Full On Consulting provided program leadership across a multi-year enterprise IT transformation — including program delivery assessment, governance redesign, vendor performance intervention, and financial re-baselining at critical program inflection points. The program leadership discipline that distinguishes recoverable delivery variance from unrecoverable trajectory divergence — and acts on that distinction before options close — is the same discipline applied in program health check engagements.
$40M+ in documented savings is the outcome of program governance that identified delivery risk early, escalated before issues became crises, managed vendor performance to commercial commitments, and gave executive sponsors the accurate program status information they needed to make informed investment decisions throughout a multi-year delivery program. The same governance standard drives every program health check we conduct.
Read the Full Case Study →$40M+
In documented savings through program delivery governance and proactive delivery risk intervention
2-4 Wks
Rapid program health check turnaround — findings delivered while intervention options are still viable
20+
Years of enterprise program delivery and governance experience informing every health check assessment
Before You Engage
What to Ask a Program Health Check Provider
Is the health check truly independent of the program team and implementing vendor?
Program health checks conducted by the program management office, the program governance team, or the implementing vendor are not independent assessments — they are internal reviews with a structural conflict of interest in the program's perceived health. Ask whether the health check practitioners have any prior relationship with the program team, any commercial relationship with the implementing vendor, and whether there is any organizational reporting relationship between the assessment team and the program leadership. Independence is not a question of intent — it is a question of organizational structure and commercial relationship.
What access do they need to conduct a credible assessment?
Program health checks that rely primarily on documentation review and program team interviews produce assessments that reflect what the program team chooses to share rather than the program's actual delivery status. Ask what access the assessment team requires: direct access to the project schedule and budget tools rather than printed reports, independent interviews with business stakeholders and vendor teams rather than only program team representatives, and access to the program's risk and issue logs in their operational state. The quality of the health check is directly constrained by the access granted to conduct it.
Will they identify recovery options — or only findings?
Program health checks that produce findings without recovery options leave executive sponsors with accurate bad news and no path forward. Ask whether the health check engagement includes recovery options development: specifically whether the findings report will include scenario analysis of the recovery actions available to the organization — scope reduction, timeline extension, resource augmentation, vendor performance action — with the realistic cost, schedule, and organizational implications of each. Assessment that ends with a decision executive sponsors can make is more valuable than assessment that ends with a findings list.
How do they handle sensitive findings about program leadership performance?
Program health checks sometimes identify program leadership — not just governance process, vendor performance, or technical complexity — as a contributing factor to delivery risk. How the assessment team handles leadership performance findings determines whether the health check produces actionable executive insight or a finding that is too politically sensitive to present. Ask how leadership performance findings are developed and communicated: whether they are included in the findings report, how they are framed relative to organizational and process factors, and what the escalation path is for findings that involve current program leadership.
Independent Program Assessment — Delivered in 2-4 Weeks
Program Health Check: Know Your Program's True Delivery Status Before It's Too Late to Act
Our independent practitioners will assess your in-flight technology program's delivery performance, governance, vendor accountability, financial trajectory, and organizational readiness — identifying the delivery risks your program team has not escalated and developing the recovery options you need to make informed intervention decisions before the situation deteriorates further.
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Program Health Check vs. Project Health Check
Program Health Check — You're Here
A multi-workstream program assessment — evaluating the delivery performance, governance, vendor accountability, financial trajectory, and organizational readiness of an active program with multiple concurrent workstreams and vendors. Delivered in 2-4 weeks with recovery options for executive decision.
Best for: Enterprise transformation programs — SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, ServiceNow, or infrastructure programs with multiple concurrent workstreams.
Project Health Check — Single Initiative?
A single-initiative assessment — validating readiness before a project begins, or assessing an in-flight project that is underperforming. Covers project plan feasibility, vendor capability, team staffing, governance model, and risk identification. Delivered in 1-2 weeks.
Best for: A specific IT project — pre-start readiness validation or in-flight course correction on a single initiative.
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Senior Consultants Only
Every engagement is led and delivered by senior consultants — former CIOs, CTOs, and enterprise IT executives. You get the people you were sold, not a bait-and-switch to junior staff after the contract is signed.
$40M+ in Documented Savings
Our track record includes $40M+ in verified client savings, a $130M M&A integration across 90+ global facilities, and an end-user computing transformation for 18,000 employees. We deliver measurable outcomes — not just recommendations.
20+ Years of Enterprise Experience
Our consultants average 20+ years of enterprise IT experience across Fortune 500 and mid-market companies. We have run the same programs we are being asked to lead — across SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and large-scale transformations.
Strategy Through Execution
We do not hand you a strategy deck and walk away. Our teams stay engaged from initial assessment through go-live — accountable for outcomes, not just deliverables. If we recommend it, we are prepared to execute it.
Boutique Agility
As a boutique firm, we move faster, adapt to your priorities, and work with your team rather than around it. No bureaucracy, no layers of overhead — just focused, senior-led execution from day one.
A Partner, Not a Vendor
We build long-term relationships grounded in trust and integrity. Many of our clients have engaged us across multiple initiatives and refer us to peers — because we do what we say we will do, every time.