WHAT WOULD YOU DO? | READINESS & DELIVERY
The project is green. Three critical dependencies still have no confirmed owner. Steering approval is tomorrow.
On the surface, the project appears capable of progressing. Funding is approved and delivery plans are in place. But important control gaps remain: ownership is incomplete, assumptions still require decisions and regulatory impact is not yet fully understood.
Progression should create control — not simply postpone uncertainty.
In this scenario, proceeding with conditions can be reasonable where the remaining gaps are understood, explicitly owned and subject to clear, time-bound evidence checkpoints.
The conditions should address the underlying exposure: assign the critical dependencies, convert assumptions into decisions, define the regulatory response and agree what evidence must be available before the next decision point.
A green project is not necessarily a ready project.
Readiness comes from turning plans, ownership, evidence and decisions into confident progression.
Have a delivery or readiness question of your own?
If an Insight reflects something you are currently experiencing — an approaching decision, uncertain readiness, delivery pressure or a programme that does not feel as controlled as the reporting suggests — we would be happy to discuss it.
