Delivery Planning

Ship On Time with a
Delivery Plan That Works

Ambitious roadmaps collapse when nobody models dependencies, bench-marks velocity, or defines escalation paths. We build delivery plans grounded in your team's real capacity β€” with governance checkpoints that catch drift before it becomes crisis.

85+ Delivery Plans Created
92% On-Time Delivery Rate
6–12 Mo Typical Plan Horizon
What You Get

Your Delivery Planning Toolkit

Everything your programme manager, scrum masters, and stakeholders need to execute with confidence.

Release Roadmap & Milestone Plan

A visual roadmap with quarterly milestones, release dates, and dependency links β€” structured so leadership and delivery teams see the same picture.

Resource & Capacity Model

Role-by-role staffing plan mapped to sprints, with buffer allocations for unplanned work and ramp-up timelines for new hires.

Velocity Baseline & Forecast

Historical velocity analysis (or calibrated estimates for new teams) with sprint-over-sprint projections and confidence intervals.

Risk-Adjusted Timeline

Three-scenario modelling β€” optimistic, likely, and pessimistic β€” with Monte Carlo simulation for high-stakes milestones.

Governance & Escalation Framework

RACI matrix, decision-rights register, steering committee cadence, and escalation criteria so blockers get resolved in hours, not weeks.

Sprint Zero Playbook

Technical environment setup checklist, CI/CD pipeline requirements, coding standards, and definition of done β€” so sprint one starts clean.

Our Process

Our Delivery Planning Process

1

Scope & Context Review

We review the product backlog, architecture decisions, team composition, and any prior plans to understand what's real and what's aspirational.

Days 1–3
2

Capacity & Velocity Analysis

Analyse team velocity history (or calibrate with estimation sessions) and model realistic throughput across the planning horizon.

Days 4–6
3

Dependency Mapping

Identify cross-team, third-party, and infrastructure dependencies β€” then sequence work to minimise blocking and maximise parallel execution.

Days 7–9
4

Roadmap Construction

Build the release roadmap with milestones, governance checkpoints, and risk-adjusted buffers baked into the timeline.

Days 10–13
5

Plan Review & Handoff

Walk stakeholders through the plan, stress-test assumptions, incorporate feedback, and hand off a living document your PMO can maintain.

Days 14–16
Ready to Start?

Your Next Release Deserves a Real Plan

Talk to a delivery strategist β€” we'll review your current plan and highlight the top three risks for free.

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Who This Is For

Who Needs Delivery Planning

If your project has more than one team, a hard deadline, or external dependencies, structured delivery planning pays for itself.

Multi-Team Programmes

You're coordinating 3+ squads across time zones and need a unified plan that accounts for cross-team dependencies and shared services.

Programme Management

Fixed-Deadline Initiatives

Regulatory go-live, product launch, or contract milestone β€” you can't slip, so the plan needs realistic buffers and early-warning triggers.

Hard Deadlines

Post-Discovery Kickoffs

Discovery is done, the backlog is ready, but nobody has sequenced the work or modelled capacity. We bridge the gap to sprint one.

Sprint Zero

Rescue & Re-Planning

The current plan has drifted beyond recognition. We re-baseline scope, reset expectations with stakeholders, and create a recovery roadmap.

Project Recovery
Why OpenMalo

Why Our Delivery Plans Stick

We've planned programmes for banks, insurers, and high-growth startups β€” where missed deadlines have real consequences.

92% On-Time Track Record
Projects planned by our delivery strategists hit their milestones 92% of the time β€” because we plan for reality, not best-case fantasies.
Risk Modelling Built In
We don't just list risks β€” we run Monte Carlo simulations on critical milestones so you see probability distributions, not single-point dates.
We Talk to the People Doing the Work
Plans built in boardrooms fail. We calibrate with developers, QA, and DevOps to ensure estimates reflect actual team throughput.
Living Plans, Not PDFs
We deliver plans in Jira, Azure DevOps, or Notion β€” not static documents. Your PMO updates them sprint-over-sprint.
Governance That Doesn't Slow You Down
Lightweight steering cadence, clear escalation paths, and decision-rights registers that remove bottlenecks instead of adding meetings.
Scope-Budget-Timeline Transparency
We model trade-offs explicitly β€” if scope grows, we show exactly which milestones shift and what the budget impact is. No surprises.
Get Started

Get a Delivery Plan That Holds

Share your project context and we'll propose a planning engagement with timeline and fixed-price quote.

Free plan review and risk assessment
Proposal delivered within 48 hours
Plans delivered in your tools (Jira, ADO, Notion)
Fixed-price engagements available
NDA available upon request
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Featured Case Study

92% Milestone Accuracy Across a 9-Month Banking Programme

🏦 Banking

Delivery Planning for Core Banking Migration

A regional bank was migrating from a legacy core to a modern microservices platform. We built a 9-month delivery plan spanning 4 squads, 3 third-party integrations, and a regulator-mandated go-live date β€” and they hit 11 of 12 milestones on schedule.

92%
Milestone Accuracy
4 Squads
Coordinated
0 Days
Go-Live Delay
The Challenge

Hard regulatory deadline with no room for delay

The bank had a regulator-mandated cutover date. Four development squads were distributed across two time zones, and three critical third-party integrations had their own release schedules that couldn't be influenced.

Regulator-mandated go-live with financial penalties for delay
4 squads across IST and GMT time zones
3 third-party API integrations with fixed release windows
No historical velocity data β€” teams were newly formed

Our Approach: We ran calibration sprints to establish velocity baselines, mapped all 47 cross-team dependencies, built a risk-adjusted roadmap with Monte Carlo confidence intervals, and established a bi-weekly steering cadence that caught two critical blockers 6 weeks early.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Most PMOs maintain plans β€” we create them. We bring delivery expertise from 85+ projects, structured risk modelling, and velocity-calibrated forecasting that goes beyond Gantt charts and gut feel.