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Project Services.

Technology installations fail for predictable reasons: unclear scope, poor vendor coordination, late decisions, and nobody with both the authority and the knowledge to hold things together. DCCO provides independent project oversight, answering to the client, not the contractor.

Project management
  • End-to-end delivery: from kick-off through to commissioning, handover, and early-life support
  • Scope definition: clear, precise scoping before anything is ordered or contracted
  • Schedule management: realistic plans, honest tracking, and early warning when something is going to slip
  • Vendor coordination: keeping multiple suppliers aligned to the same plan and accountable to the same standard
  • Stakeholder management: the client, the principal contractor, the sub-trades, the building manager, the tenants
  • Quality management: setting and enforcing standards throughout, not just at the end
  • Handover: documentation, training, and the operational detail that makes a system maintainable
Project recovery
  • Rapid assessment: understanding quickly what has gone wrong, how bad it is, and what the realistic options are
  • Stakeholder reset: re-establishing trust with a client when a project has gone off track
  • Programme restructure: building a credible revised plan that people will actually believe
  • Contractor management: dealing with a supplier who is in difficulty, whether through negotiation, pressure, or replacement
  • Root cause analysis: understanding why a project failed so the same mistakes are not made on the next one
Risk management
  • Risk register development: identifying real risks, not just generic ones, specific to your project and your environment
  • Mitigation planning: practical steps to reduce the likelihood and impact of the risks that matter
  • Contingency planning: what happens if something goes wrong, who decides, what actions are taken, and how is it communicated
  • Pre-project review: a structured look at a proposed project before it starts, identifying the risks that are already visible
Approach

PRINCE2 principles are applied where they are useful and common sense where they are more appropriate. DCCO is comfortable on a construction site, in a comms room, in a client boardroom, and in a contractor's site office. Status reports are clear and factual, and when something is going wrong, it gets said, including when the engagement itself is at fault.

Projects are not managed by email. The work happens on site.

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Frequently asked

What is project recovery and when is it needed?

Project recovery is what happens when a technology programme has gone off track: missed milestones, spiralling cost, loss of confidence between client and contractor, or unclear scope. DCCO comes in independently, assesses quickly what has gone wrong, re-establishes trust with stakeholders, builds a credible revised plan, and manages the contractor relationship, whether through negotiation, pressure, or replacement.

Does DCCO use PRINCE2?

PRINCE2 principles are applied where they are useful and common sense where they are more appropriate. DCCO is comfortable on a construction site, in a comms room, in a client boardroom, and in a contractor's site office. The method serves the project, not the other way round.

Can DCCO take over a project that is already in flight?

Yes. Project recovery engagements almost always start with a live project. The first step is a rapid assessment of the current state: what has been agreed, what has been delivered, what is at risk, and where the stakeholder relationships stand. From there DCCO builds a revised plan the whole team can believe in and takes accountability for delivering it.

What is a Pre-Project Review?

A fixed-price, typically 1–2 day structured risk review of a proposed technology project before contracts are signed. Scope, suppliers, schedule, and underlying assumptions are examined and the risks that are already visible are surfaced. Problems are cheapest to fix before they happen, and this is the cheapest engagement DCCO offers.

What sectors has DCCO delivered projects in?

Theatre and entertainment (including West End venues such as the London Palladium), digital out of home across seven European markets, corporate AV and workplace fit-outs at global financial institutions, retail, banking, aviation, and stadiums. The common shape across all of them is a technology installation where independent, client-side oversight was worth more than the fee.

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