Direction & Value
Whether delivery is pointed at outcomes people can describe, and whether value is still being tested once work is underway.
- Strategic Alignment
- Portfolio & Prioritisation
- Benefits & Value Realisation
Three questions per capability
Delivery DNA 2.2
Understand how your organisation approaches delivery today
Delivery DNA provides a structured, evidence-informed view of how an organisation approaches project delivery across five domains and fifteen capabilities. It highlights patterns, strengths and areas that may warrant further attention, then provides practical recommendations and bounded 30/60/90-day direction.
Five-domain profile
Indicative view · illustrative data
Direction & Value
Established
Leadership & Governance
Developing
Delivery System
Developing
People & Enablement
Established
Insight & Adaptation
Emerging
The model
Five domains, fifteen capabilities, forty-five questions
Every question maps to one capability, and every capability sits inside one domain. That structure is what makes the result comparable rather than anecdotal.
Leadership & Governance
How decisions get made, how sponsorship behaves in practice, and whether assurance informs delivery or simply reports on it.
- Sponsorship & Accountability
- Governance & Decision-Making
- Risk, Assurance & Resilience
Three questions per capability
Delivery System
The mechanics: how work is planned and sequenced, how dependencies and risk are handled, and how consistently the method is applied.
- Delivery Approach & Lifecycle
- Planning, Control & Dependencies
- Capacity & Delivery Ecosystem
Three questions per capability
People & Enablement
Whether the right capability is available to the right work, and whether teams are set up and supported to deliver it.
- Leadership, Culture & Collaboration
- Stakeholder Engagement & Change Adoption
- Delivery Capability & Enablement
Three questions per capability
Insight & Adaptation
The quality of delivery information, the honesty of reporting, and whether the organisation actually learns between projects.
- Data, Reporting & Decision Insight
- Learning, Adaptability & Improvement
- Digital, Automation & Responsible AI
Three questions per capability
Snapshot and Overview
What the free Snapshot gives you, and what the £295 Overview adds
Both use the same approved model. The difference is depth: how many questions are asked, and therefore how much can be said.
Delivery DNA Snapshot
Free
15 questions · 6–8 minutes
One question per capability. Gives an indicative view of maturity and a five-domain profile you can read and share.
- 15 questions — one per capability
- Indicative maturity across all five domains
- A five-domain profile you can read in minutes
- A saved Snapshot you can download and keep
- The remaining 30 questions
- Capability-level findings and patterns
- Prioritised recommendations
- Bounded 30/60/90-day direction
Delivery DNA Overview
£295
45 questions · About 30 minutes
Unlocks the remaining 30 questions to produce the complete five-domain, fifteen-capability result with findings, patterns and bounded next-step direction.
- All 45 questions across 15 capabilities
- Complete five-domain and fifteen-capability result
- Confidence indicators against each area
- Findings and the patterns behind them
- Prioritised, practical recommendations
- Bounded 30/60/90-day direction
You can begin with the free Snapshot and unlock the Overview afterwards. The Overview is a one-off £295 — not a subscription.
The Overview output
Findings, confidence and bounded 30/60/90-day direction
The Overview does not hand back a score to argue about. It explains what the evidence suggests, how firmly, and what would be sensible to do in the next quarter.
Findings and patterns
Insight & Adaptation
Higher confidenceReporting is produced on time, but the same three delivery issues recur across unrelated projects without being named as a pattern.
Recommendation. Add a short cause section to the existing portfolio report rather than creating a new report.
Leadership & Governance
Moderate confidenceDecisions are taken at the right level, yet teams frequently rediscover them weeks later through informal channels.
Recommendation. Record decisions and their rationale in one place teams already open each week.
Bounded direction
- 30 daysAgree one owner for delivery reporting content and cadence.
- 60 daysName the recurring patterns explicitly in the portfolio review.
- 90 daysRe-test the two weakest capabilities and compare the change.
Illustrative. Bounded 30/60/90-day direction, not a full improvement plan or transformation roadmap.
How to read a result
What Delivery DNA is — and what it is not
Being precise about this is part of the product. A result you can trust is one whose limits are stated.
Indicative, not authoritative
A Snapshot is a single respondent's structured account of how delivery works. It is a strong starting point and it is explicitly not an organisational audit.
Patterns before conclusions
The value is rarely one weak capability. It is the way two or three interact — for example, decisions taken well but recorded nowhere teams can see them.
Confidence is shown, not hidden
Where the evidence supports a firmer reading, the Overview says so. Where it does not, it says that too.
No single definitive score
Delivery DNA reports indicative maturity by domain and capability. It deliberately does not reduce an organisation to one number, because that number would hide exactly the detail you need to act on.
What is next for Delivery DNA
On the roadmap, not in the product
These capabilities are in development. They are not part of Delivery DNA 2.2 today.
Perspectives
In developmentCompare how different stakeholders describe the same delivery environment, and where those views diverge.
Repeat measurement
In developmentRe-run Delivery DNA over time and see how capability moves, not just where it sits today.
Improvement planning
In developmentExtend bounded direction into a fuller, owned improvement plan with tracked progress.
TeamMates execution
In developmentPrepare repeatable delivery work directly from what Delivery DNA surfaced.
Enterprise
In developmentPortfolio-wide use, governed access and organisation-level administration.
Take the Snapshot and see your five-domain profile
Fifteen questions, 6–8 minutes, no preparation. You can unlock the complete forty-five-question Overview afterwards if the profile warrants it.