Free Delivery Control Diagnostic

How close is your programme to No-Surprises Delivery?

When the stakes are high, governance is not enough. Only delivery control holds.

Used on programmes up to €2B across aviation, energy and infrastructure.

Free · 20 questions · about 4 minutes · Instant result

Aircraft under maintenance in a hangar — a controlled programme environment

Find out if you have real delivery control — or if you're exposed.

Cut through the governance pack and diagnose your programme in minutes — whether your controls would hold under pressure, or whether costly surprises are quietly forming out of sight.

Built for PMO Directors and programme leads on large, capital-heavy programmes — airports, refineries, data centres, multi-country rollouts — where nothing has broken yet, and the whole job is making sure nothing does.

Large programmes rarely fail suddenly. They fail quietly.

One unmanaged gap at a time — a scope assumption never written down, a vendor date never verified, a decision never closed. By the time it reaches the report it's already a cost. Delivery control is catching it while it's still just a gap.

Scored against the 5Cs Framework — the system used to hold delivery control on capital programmes up to €2B across 30 countries. You get clear, actionable feedback on exactly where your controls hold, and where the next surprise is forming.

Serguei Poppeleer · Founder, Contracks Global

MCIArb · IACCM · LLM Oil & Gas · Executive MBA

25 years across 30 countries, holding the controls on major capital programmes up to €2B — where a single surprise makes the headlines.

Who this is for

If a surprise is the one thing you can't afford.

PMO & Programme Directors

Accountable for a programme too big and too visible to let drift. Strong on governance — but is it real control, or a paperwork layer?

Owner-side teams on capital programmes

Airports, energy, rail, data centres. Multiple contractors, long chains — and one unmanaged gap away from a headline.

Boards & sponsors who've been burned before

They've seen a programme look fine in the steering deck right up until it didn't. They want the controls proven, not presented.

Proof

One we held under control.

Energy · Northern Europe · Cross-border EPC programme

Supported delivery control on a cross-border energy programme.

Situation

A cross-border EPC programme connecting two national energy systems — multiple contractors, multiple jurisdictions, and the scale at which a single unmanaged gap cascades fast.

Intervention

Brought delivery control to the programme: one operating truth across contractors and borders, decisions closed before they could cascade, vendor commitments verified rather than assumed — on a fixed control cadence.

Outcome

Control cadence exposed issues early, while they were still manageable. Contractor commitments, open decisions and cross-border interfaces were tracked before they became board-level surprises. The programme maintained executive visibility over the gaps that usually disappear between the site, the schedule and the steering deck.