Selection
Vendor Selection
The structured evaluation that prevents an expensive procurement mistake before the contract is signed.
The problem
Nobody in the room has actually implemented all the tools being evaluated.
You are about to commit a significant budget to SPM tooling. The vendor demos were polished. The RFP responses were compliant. But nobody in the room has implemented all the tools being evaluated, and nobody is scoring against what the organization actually needs rather than what the vendors chose to show. Without that baseline, you are not verifying anything. You are just picking a side.
What I deliver
What I deliver
Maturity assessment
Score your current state across the five things that actually matter: governance fit, data model, integration depth, reporting fit, and strategic alignment. Your requirements are derived from where you actually are, not where vendors assume you should be.
Requirements mapping
Translate maturity gaps into weighted evaluation criteria specific to your organization’s strategic priorities.
Structured vendor evaluation
Hands-on assessment of each candidate, not demo-based. Scored against criteria the vendors did not get to design.
Decision-ready recommendation
A report with total cost of ownership, implementation risk, strategic fit scoring, and the evidence behind the recommendation.
Scored, not staged
Every candidate against the same weighted criteria, not the criteria the vendor walked in with.
Every engagement produces a scored output across governance fit, data model, integration depth, reporting fit, and strategic alignment. Weighted to your priorities, not mine.
Who this is for
Who this is for
Procurement teams and IT leaders evaluating SPM, PPM, or enterprise agile tooling. Organizations that have been through one failed tool selection and cannot afford a second.
The business case
The business case
A fixed fee, a fraction of the procurement at risk. Wrong-vendor selection is never just the license cost. It’s the implementation rework when the tool doesn’t fit the way you were told it would. It’s the integration patches nobody scoped for. It’s the people who leave because they’d rather find a new job than keep fighting a platform that was never right. It’s the quarters of stalled velocity spent working around the tool instead of working with it. That’s where the real cost lives, and it’s the cost most vendor evaluations never price in. The assessment costs less than one month of a misaligned implementation.
Not sure the tool is the real problem? Start where most engagements do, with The Diagnostic.
The right platform decision starts before the demos. Let’s make sure you’re scoring what matters.