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Command of the critical path.

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Independent. Senior. Decisive.

The controls partner owners call when the date cannot move.

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Do the most consequential work of your career.

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Data Centers · New ConstructionCompleted 2023

Edge Data Center Program

Twelve small sites run as one program, each delivered faster than the one before.

LocationMulti-state (12 sites)
ClientConfidential
LocationMulti-state (12 sites)
SectorData Centers
Value$260M
Size12 sites
DeliveryProgram
Duration28 months
StatusCompleted 2023
Why it mattered

A program is not a large project. It is many commitments made at once, each with its own owner, budget and exposure. Executives need one decision-grade view of all of them, refreshed at every data date.

The challenge

A network operator deployed twelve edge data centers across several states to bring computing closer to its users.

Individually, each site was modest. Together, they needed a repeatable schedule template, consistent reporting and quick decisions, or twelve small delays would compound into one large one.

Schedule at a glance

The whole program, on one line.

Start to finish, as the schedule tells it. For work still in progress, the bar moves with today's data date.

StartMar 2021
Duration28 months
HandoverJul 2023
Progress—
Standardize the buildIntegrate the portfolioShow it on one pageFeed the lessons back
How we held the date

Our approach, phase by phase.

The same disciplined sequence we bring to every engagement, shaped around what this project needed most.

PHASE 01PHASE 02PHASE 03PHASE 04
PHASE 01Standardize the build

One schedule template, coding structure and reporting calendar applied to every project in the program.

PHASE 02Integrate the portfolio

Individual schedules rolled into a program master, with shared constraints and funding made visible.

PHASE 03Show it on one page

Portfolio dashboards presenting progress, risk and forecast together, ranked by exposure rather than size.

PHASE 04Feed the lessons back

What each project taught built back into the template, so every new site started from a stronger baseline.

What changed

The difference we made

Measured the only way that matters: whether the date and the budget held.

Result 01A template that scaled

A standard schedule template cut planning effort for every new site.

Result 02Twelve sites on one page

Leadership saw every site's status, risk and forecast in a single weekly view.

Result 03Shorter every round

Lessons from each site fed back into the template, shortening each successive build.

Your program, under command

Make your program the next one we land.

Tell us what you are building and the date your board expects. In one senior-led review you will know what it will take to hold it.