Glossary

2-day fixed-price audit for stuck IT projects. Day 1 stakeholder interviews, day 2 documentation review. Outcome: recovery roadmap or honest stop recommendation.

→ Quick Assessment

Hands-on recovery of stuck IT projects over 3–6 months. Parallel address of technology, organization, stakeholders, contracts.

→ Project Stabilization

Concrete, dated plan to stabilize a stuck IT project. Outcome of a Quick Assessment or programme review – with milestones, roles, risks.

Total Cost of Ownership over 5 years. Licences, operations, migration costs plus indirect costs (training, customization, shadow IT).

Selection of 2–4 final platform vendors through a structured filter process: requirements, fit to the company, market position, defensible references.

Consulting without vendor partnerships, commissions, or kickbacks. Recommendations based purely on fit to the company – no SAP bias, no Microsoft loyalty conflict.

Structural dependence on one vendor through proprietary formats, high migration costs, or missing exit strategy. Avoidable through architectural caution.

Replacement of the Enterprise Resource Planning system or major version upgrade. High risk through impact on all core processes. The biggest IT intervention in a company's lifecycle.

Moving on-premise infrastructure and applications into Public/Private/Hybrid Cloud. More than Lift-and-Shift: affects architecture, operations, governance, FinOps.

Objectives and Key Results: goal-management framework. 4–12 weeks rollout in a pilot domain, then scaled company-wide.

→ OKR Tool

Scaled Agile Framework: scaling agile work at programme and portfolio level. Agile Release Trains, PI Planning, Lean Portfolio Management.

German legal risk for IT externals (Scheinselbständigkeit). With NZ company seat (OCENOX LTD) and territorial principle (§3 SGB IV), no concern – own entrepreneurial risk, multiple clients.