Consulting Lab · Flagship

Northstar Digital: SaaS Delivery Recovery

A fictional 40-person company with eight concurrent client projects, fragmented status and competing commitments. Leadership wants the few risks and decisions that matter most.

Synthetic demonstration. Independent demonstration. The organisation, project details, budgets, people, dashboards and outcomes shown are fictional or synthetic. No employer or client-owned materials have been reproduced. Illustrative outputs are not actual client results.

• Status data is synthetic and dated Week 46 (fictional).
• Scores use the transparent rules shown below, not an opaque "AI score".
• Change any condition to see scores and actions recalculate.
• Thresholds are prototype rules, not certified benchmarks.

Projects

At risk

Overdue milestones

Open decisions

Avg health

Mobile Release

Health 45 · Critical

Sponsor CPO · Owner S. Chen

Score breakdown

Starting score100
Critical milestone overdue−30
Unresolved critical risk−25

Adjust conditions

App-store submission (critical) · 5d overdue — mark completeRisk (critical): Unpatched authentication library · owner Security lead — mark mitigatedDecision: Ship with reduced login options? (CPO) — mark resolvedCapacity allocation: 98%Days since last status update: 4

Leadership Action Plan

01
Mobile Release
Re-baseline the overdue critical milestone and agree a recovery date. Accountable: S. Chen. Score impact +30.
02
Mobile Release
Assign an accountable owner and mitigation date for: Unpatched authentication library. Accountable: S. Chen. Score impact +25.
03
Billing Integration
Escalate the blocked dependency with Payments vendor. Accountable: J. Moreno. Score impact +15.

Scoring assumptions

Score = clamp(100 − deductions, 0, 100). Critical milestone overdue −30; Unresolved critical risk −25; Blocked external dependency −15; Capacity allocation above 100% −15; Last status update more than seven days old −15. Green 75–100, amber 50–74, red 0–49.

Synthetic demonstration report — Northstar Digital is fictional.

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