Diagnose. Stabilise. Deliver.
Is your technology project healthy?
Projects rarely fail overnight. They show symptoms first. The Defect Doctor gives you an independent, evidence-based diagnosis — so you know what’s wrong and can decide what’s next.
- Delivery dimensions assessed
- 10Delivery dimensions assessed
- Diagnostic questions
- 56Diagnostic questions
- To an indicative diagnosis
- ~10 minTo an indicative diagnosis
Does this sound familiar?
The things people say quietly, before they say them officially.
If more than two of these describe your project, the project is telling you something.
UAT is finding far more defects than expected.
Late discovery is rarely a UAT problem. It is evidence that earlier testing did not do its job.
The go-live date keeps moving.
A date that moves in small increments is usually hiding a much larger gap.
Everyone says the project is green, but nobody believes it.
When reported status and lived experience diverge, reporting is the first thing to audit.
Testing keeps getting squeezed.
Testing absorbs upstream delay because it is the last activity before a fixed date.
We don't know whether we're actually ready to release.
Release readiness should be an evidenced position, not a judgement call in a steering meeting.
The vendor says everything is fine.
Self-reported quality is not assurance. Ask for the evidence, not the summary.
How it works
Symptoms. Diagnosis. Prescription. Treatment.
A clinical method applied to delivery — evidence first, opinion second.
- 01
Symptoms
What the project is showing you: slipped dates, defect spikes, UAT pain, a reporting line nobody believes.
- 02
Diagnosis
A structured assessment across ten delivery dimensions produces an indicative Project Health Score.
- 03
Prescription
Symptoms are traced to likely root causes and turned into a prioritised plan for 7, 30 and 90 days.
- 04
Treatment
You act — with your own team, your existing partners, or specialist help if you decide you need it.
What we diagnose
Ten dimensions where delivery quietly comes apart.
Each one is scored independently, so you can see exactly where the risk is concentrated.
Project Delivery
Whether the plan is credible and the schedule is grounded in evidence.
Testing & QA
Whether testing is actually reducing risk or simply consuming time.
Defects
What the defect profile says about the underlying quality of the build.
Requirements
Whether what is being built can be tested, and whether the business agrees.
UAT
Whether UAT is confirming readiness or discovering fundamental problems.
Environments
Whether the places you test in resemble the place you go live in.
Releases
Whether deployment is a controlled event or a recurring risk.
Governance
Whether leadership is seeing an accurate picture in time to act.
Vendors
Whether third-party quality is validated or simply accepted.
Team Capability
Whether the team is equipped for the assurance the change demands.
Levels of diagnosis
Start free. Go deeper only if the evidence says you should.
Free
Project Health Check
Guided self-assessment across ten delivery dimensions with an immediate indicative diagnosis.
- Project Health Score
- Category health status
- Symptoms and likely root causes
- Prioritised next steps
Coming soon
Detailed Diagnosis
Expanded question set, deeper scoring model and a downloadable diagnostic report for your leadership team.
- Extended assessment
- Weighted risk modelling
- Downloadable report
- Benchmark context
On request
Independent Project Review
A structured review involving documentation, project artefacts, interviews and specialist analysis.
- Artefact review
- Stakeholder interviews
- Independent findings
- Treatment plan
Coming soon
Continuous Monitoring
Periodic reassessment so you can track Project Health Score movement across the delivery lifecycle.
- Scheduled re-checks
- Trend tracking
- Early-warning alerts
- Board-ready summaries
Find out what your project is actually telling you.
The Project Health Check takes about ten minutes and gives you an indicative diagnosis immediately.