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Is Your Initiative Actually On Track?

Most transformation work does not fail in the strategy. It fails in execution. Use this free executive toolkit to score your execution risk, put a number on your cost of delay, and compare your options.

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Faster project delivery
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Major milestones met on time
past 18 months
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FY23–FY25
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Portfolio project oversight
across client programs

Check Your Execution

Three quick tools. Score your risk, see what slippage is costing you, and compare your options for fixing it.

Execution Risk Scorecard

Eight questions about how your initiative is running today. You will get a risk score, the patterns behind it, and what usually fixes them.

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Cost of Delay Calculator

A six-week slip on one workstream rarely registers. Across a portfolio it becomes the gap between the plan leadership committed to and the return the organization realizes. Put your numbers in.

Total approved spend for the initiative or program
Revenue gain, savings, or synergy unlocked per year
Total weeks of slip across the critical path
Why this matters — published research
45% over budget, 56% less value: McKinsey & Oxford found large IT projects run 45% over budget and deliver 56% less value than predicted.
9.4% of every dollar wasted: PMI's Pulse of the Profession research found organizations waste an average of 9.4% of every dollar invested in projects through poor performance.
5280 PMO clients: +30% faster median delivery vs. internal baselines and >98% of major milestones on time (past 18 months).
Estimated cost of delay $0
Deferred value (benefits arriving late)$0
Extended run-rate (team & vendor burn)$0
Slip as share of planned timeline0%

Method: deferred value = annual value × (slip weeks ÷ 52). Extended run-rate = weekly burn (budget ÷ planned weeks) × slip weeks. Directional estimate for planning conversations, not a financial forecast.

Sources
McKinsey & Company in collaboration with the University of Oxford, "Delivering large-scale IT projects on time, on budget, and on value" (large IT projects run 45% over budget and deliver 56% less value than predicted).
Project Management Institute (PMI), Pulse of the Profession (organizations waste an average of 9.4% of every dollar invested in projects due to poor performance).
5280 PMO aggregate client data, FY23–FY25 (+30% faster median delivery vs. internal baselines; >98% of major milestones on time over the past 18 months; $12.2M in client savings).

Build vs. Embed: Your Three Options

Most leaders running a high-stakes initiative end up at the same fork in the road. Select each option to see what it means for time-to-control, ownership, and overhead.

Option 1

Build It Internally

Hire a PMO Director, staff the team, let the capability mature.

Option 2

Advisory / Staffing

Bring in frameworks and headcount to support the existing team.

Option 3

Embedded Execution Leadership

Senior leadership that owns delivery inside your team from day one.

Real stories, Real results

Our clients say it best. From complex integrations to high-stakes transformations, here is how 5280 PMO helped turn challenges into measurable wins.

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What changes when execution is finally under control?Boden Larson · Mesa Labs
Overwhelmed. Moving too fast. No alignment. Sound familiar?Life before and after 5280 PMO stepped in
What does it feel like when execution is finally handled?A senior leader on a complex, high-stakes initiative
From 9 months to a couple of weeks.That is what execution authority looks like

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Common Questions

The questions leaders usually ask before bringing in execution leadership.

Ramp in 14 days or less. A senior program lead plus a fit-for-purpose team is embedded inside your organization, with governance and reporting installed from the first weeks.
Project Management as a Service, with a flexible commercial model: fixed-fee sprints or Time & Materials. The team steps out when the initiative is delivered, so there is no permanent overhead left behind.
Tool-agnostic and enterprise fluent: Smartsheet, Monday.com, ClickUp, JIRA, Power BI, and ServiceNow. 5280 PMO is also vendor-neutral, providing objective steering across your partners and platforms.
Three core areas: M&A integration and Day-1 to Day-100 stabilization, enterprise programs and transformations, and complex software implementations (ERP, CRM, HRIS, and data transformation), plus program recovery and stalled initiative turnaround.
Board-grade reporting with clean KPIs and no-surprise governance. Published outcomes across client programs: 30% faster median delivery vs. internal baselines, over 98% of major milestones on time in the past 18 months, and $12.2M in client savings across FY23–FY25 through scope clarity, rework reduction, and early delivery.
It combines two parts: the value your initiative defers each week it slips (expected annual value × slip weeks ÷ 52) and the extended run-rate of keeping the team and vendors engaged longer than planned (weekly burn × slip weeks). It is a directional planning estimate, not a financial forecast, and the assumptions are shown next to the result.

Helpful Resources

Go deeper: real case studies and stories from the programs behind the numbers on this page.

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If your scorecard came back amber or red, or your cost of delay number was uncomfortable, the fastest next step is a short conversation about what is slipping and why.

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