Senior practitioner running enterprise programmes and publishing the artefacts that came out of them.
Boutique IT consulting. One person. Fixed-fee engagements, written outcomes, signed under SoW. Templates and playbooks from the same work, sold as instant downloads.
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- Who
- Varun Vashisht. Independent practitioner. Fourteen years across banking, healthcare, oil & energy, fintech, telecom. PMP, CBAP, PMI-PBA.
- What
- Programme delivery, PMO setup, programme recovery, AI-enabled PMO, fractional PMO leadership. Plus a library of six BA/PM templates with eleven sector editions each.
- Where
- London-based. Engagements UK, EU, US, India. Remote-first, on-site when the work demands it.
- How
- Fixed fee or short retainer. Discovery week before any commitment. Honest scope. Written outcomes, including an honest close-down if that's what the evidence says.
- When
- Open for Q3 2026. Typically two engagements in flight, three at most. Get in touch.
4 engagements I take on. Each one ends with a written handover and a self-running team.
Pricing is a starting point. Final scope is set in the discovery week against a fixed fee or a defined retainer. I don't do time-and-materials.
- 01
We bring the PMO charter, governance cadence, RAID register, executive dashboards, and templates — pre-tested across 10+ enterprise programmes. You get a working control tower from day one, owned by your people by week 8.
$45,000 from - 02
Senior PMO leadership presence on a fractional retainer. Your portfolio gets reviewed, risks get challenged, vendor decisions get sanity-checked, and executive comms get pre-flighted — all by someone who's done this at scale and isn't trying to politic their way to a full-time job.
$12,000 / month from - 03
When a programme is missing dates, blowing budget, and the team is hiding the truth from steering — we walk in, find the actual blockers (usually 3-5, never what leadership thinks), build a credible recovery plan, and execute the first 6 weeks of it shoulder-to-shoulder with your delivery team.
$80,000 from - 04
Most 'AI for PMO' is a slide. We pick 3 specific workflows where your PM team is bleeding hours, build production-grade GenAI tooling for them (Anthropic / OpenAI / on-prem if needed), train your people on the prompts that work, and instrument the savings so finance sees it.
$35,000 from
6 templates, eleven sector editions each. Built in real engagements.
Each pack ships as four files (blank, worked example, working spreadsheet, how-to guide) and includes eleven industry editions in one purchase. Instant download. One licence per company.
01 / 06 Business Case
The full Five-Case Model pack. Treasury Green Book structure, worked example, financial model with NPV and Monte Carlo, and section-by-section reviewer guide. Eleven sector editions included.
02 / 06 Business Requirements Document (BRD)
A BABOK v3-aligned BRD pack. Blank template, worked example, requirements traceability matrix, and an elicitation-to-validation guide. Eleven sector editions included.
03 / 06 Stakeholder Analysis
Identify, segment, and plan engagement for every stakeholder that can move your project. BABOK-aligned. Includes register, power-interest grid, salience model, and a 90-day engagement plan. Eleven sector editions included.
04 / 06 RAID Log
A working RAID log, not a stale spreadsheet. Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies, with response strategies, owners, and a heat-map view. PMBOK 7 aligned. Eleven sector editions included.
05 / 06 Project Charter
The document that authorises a project and aligns sponsor, manager, and team on scope, success measures, and resources. PMBOK 7 aligned. Includes a charter tracker and a kickoff agenda. Eleven sector editions included.
06 / 06 Solution Design Document (SDD)
A C4-structured Solution Design Document. Context, containers, components, interfaces. Includes blank template, worked example, interface catalogue, and architecture-review guide. Eleven sector editions included.
Short writing from inside live programmes. Most of it useful to a senior practitioner.
Published occasionally, when the lesson is worth writing down. No newsletter, no algorithm, no schedule.
- 2026-05 9 min
On why the OGC structure beats the deck. With three reviewer questions worth memorising.
- 2026-04 12 min
How an honest close-down landed better with the board than a heroic rescue would have.
- 2026-03 7 min
Weekly fifteen-minute review against the power-interest grid. Reasons it stops working.
- 2026-02 8 min
Mechanical detail on scoring, ageing, and the right cadence for a steering pack.
One person. Fourteen years. Carries a written history of every engagement.
I run a one-person consulting practice. Most months I'm in flight on one or two engagements, and I keep room for a third short discovery if the work fits. The output is always written and the scope is always fixed before the work starts.
The library exists because the same six artefacts get rebuilt at the start of every programme, and there's no good reason for any practitioner to do that from scratch. I rebuild them properly, ship the editions, then move on.
The work I take on is usually about discipline, not novelty. Setting up a PMO that holds. Recovering a programme that's slipped past two milestones. Standing in as fractional director while a permanent one is being hired. The thread is senior judgement, in the room, for as long as it takes to make the discipline self-sustaining, then out.
I don't take revenue-share, equity-instead-of-cash, or open-ended retainers. The engagement model is described in the section above.
The most useful first step is a thirty-minute call. No deck, no fee. I'll tell you whether I'm the right fit.