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Seasoned program leadership and independent advisory — PMO, agile delivery, enterprise architecture, platform selection, IV&V and fractional CIO/CDO/CAIO roles.

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Overview

Program Delivery & Advisory

We provide seasoned program leadership and independent advisory — PMO, agile delivery, enterprise architecture, vendor-neutral platform selection, IV&V and fractional CIO/CDO/CAIO roles — so complex, multi-vendor initiatives deliver the outcomes they were funded for.

Industries: Public Sector, Healthcare, Higher Ed, Financial Services, Private Equity portfolio companies

08 Offerings

Select an offering for activities, outcomes and technologies.

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Inside Every Offering

Activities and deliverables, business outcomes, technologies and how each engagement is bought.

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PDA-01

Program & Portfolio Management (PMO-as-a-Service)

Provide seasoned program leadership that keeps complex, multi-workstream engagements on schedule and on budget.

Outcomes

Predictable delivery, transparency for sponsors.

RetainerT&M
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Activities & deliverables

  1. 01PMO setup
  2. 02Governance & status reporting
  3. 03RAID management
  4. 04Financial tracking
  5. 05Vendor coordination

Technologies & platforms

PMI/PMBOKPRINCE2JiraAzure DevOpsSmartsheetMS Project
PDA-02

Agile Transformation & Delivery Coaching

Help teams and portfolios adopt agile ways of working that deliver value faster.

Outcomes

Faster delivery of value, better cross-team alignment.

Coaching retainer
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Activities & deliverables

  1. 01Agile assessment
  2. 02Framework selection
  3. 03Team coaching
  4. 04Portfolio agility
  5. 05Metrics

Technologies & platforms

ScrumKanbanSAFeJira Align
PDA-03

IT Strategy & Enterprise Architecture

Align technology strategy and architecture with business goals through roadmaps and governance.

Outcomes

Coherent technology investments, reduced duplication.

Advisory
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Activities & deliverables

  1. 01Capability maps
  2. 02Current/target architecture
  3. 03Technology roadmap
  4. 04Architecture governance

Technologies & platforms

TOGAFArchiMateLeanIXArdoq
PDA-04

Fractional CIO / CDO / Chief AI Officer

Provide experienced technology, data and AI leadership on a fractional basis for growing and mid-market organizations.

Outcomes

Executive leadership at a fraction of full-time cost.

Monthly retainer
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Activities & deliverables

  1. 01Leadership coverage
  2. 02Strategy
  3. 03Team build-out
  4. 04Vendor management
  5. 05Board updates

Technologies & platforms

Platform-neutral
PDA-05

Vendor-Neutral Platform Selection & Procurement Advisory

Run objective, criteria-based evaluations of cloud, data, AI and enterprise platforms — without reseller bias.

Outcomes

The right platform at the right price; reduced lock-in risk.

Fixed-fee
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Activities & deliverables

  1. 01Requirements
  2. 02RFP/RFI
  3. 03Scripted demos & PoCs
  4. 04Scoring
  5. 05Contract & licensing negotiation support

Technologies & platforms

Cross-vendor
PDA-06

Independent Verification & Validation (IV&V)

Provide independent oversight of large programs — common in public sector and regulated environments.

Outcomes

Early risk detection, oversight-body confidence.

RetainerContract-based
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Activities & deliverables

  1. 01Program health assessments
  2. 02Risk reporting
  3. 03Requirements traceability
  4. 04Quality reviews

Technologies & platforms

IEEE 1012agency IV&V frameworks
PDA-07

IT Due Diligence & M&A Integration

Assess technology risk and integration effort for acquisitions, and lead post-merger integration.

Outcomes

Informed deal decisions; faster synergy capture.

Fixed-feeProgram
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Activities & deliverables

  1. 01Tech due diligence
  2. 02Integration planning
  3. 03Carve-outs
  4. 04Systems consolidation

Technologies & platforms

Platform-neutral
PDA-08

Value Realization & Outcome Tracking

Define, measure and report the business value of technology programs against the original business case.

Outcomes

Proven ROI; better future investment decisions.

BundledRetainer
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Activities & deliverables

  1. 01KPI baselines
  2. 02Benefits tracking
  3. 03Executive dashboards
  4. 04Course-correction recommendations

Technologies & platforms

Power BI/Tableau dashboards
Why act now

The Market Is Moving

Market shifts shaping Program Delivery & Advisory decisions in 2026.

1 trend to watch
  1. 01

    Nearshore talent models and fractional leadership for mid-market

    NMS Consulting: smaller AI-supported teams with more nearshore specialists; fractional C-level roles paired with project support for mid-market clients.

    NMS Consulting, 2026
Technology & platforms

No Cloud or Technology Barrier

Certified architects across all four major clouds and the leading independent platforms — recommendations follow your requirements, not partner incentives.

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01AWS

Capability Area

AWS

Any cloud: Independent / Multi-cloud Platforms

02AWS

Compute, containers & serverless

EC2EKSECSLambda

Any cloud: Kubernetes · OpenShift · Docker · Nutanix

03AWS

Landing zones & IaC

Control TowerCloudFormation/CDK

Any cloud: Terraform/OpenTofu · Pulumi · Ansible

04AWS

Relational databases

RDSAurora

Any cloud: PostgreSQL · MySQL · SQL Server · MongoDB

05AWS

Data warehouse / lakehouse

RedshiftS3Lake Formation

Any cloud: Snowflake · Databricks · Apache Iceberg · Delta Lake

06AWS

Data integration & ELT

GlueDMSAppFlow

Any cloud: dbt · Fivetran · Informatica · Matillion · Airflow · Qlik Replicate

07AWS

Streaming

KinesisMSK

Any cloud: Kafka/Confluent · Flink · Spark

08AWS

BI & analytics

QuickSight

Any cloud: Tableau · Qlik · Sigma · ThoughtSpot

09AWS

Semantic layer

Covered by independent platforms below

Any cloud: Snowflake Semantic Views · dbt Semantic Layer · Databricks Metric Views · AtScale · Cube · OSI

10AWS

Governance & catalog

DataZoneLake Formation

Any cloud: Collibra · Alation · Unity Catalog · Snowflake Horizon · Atlan · Informatica

11AWS

Generative AI & agents

BedrockAgentCoreAmazon Q

Any cloud: OpenAI · Anthropic · Meta Llama · Mistral · Snowflake Cortex · Databricks Mosaic AI · LangGraph · MCP

12AWS

ML platform & MLOps

SageMaker

Any cloud: MLflow · Databricks · Snowflake ML · Kubeflow

13AWS

RPA & document AI

Textract

Any cloud: UiPath · Automation Anywhere · Blue Prism · Celonis

14AWS

DevOps & observability

CodePipelineCloudWatch

Any cloud: GitHub · GitLab · Jenkins · Argo CD · Datadog · Dynatrace · Grafana

15AWS

Security

Security HubGuardDutyIAM

Any cloud: CrowdStrike · Palo Alto · Okta · Zscaler · Wiz · Splunk · CyberArk

16AWS

FinOps

Cost ExplorerCUR

Any cloud: Apptio Cloudability · Flexera · Vantage · FOCUS

17AWS

CRM & integration

AppFlowEventBridge

Any cloud: Salesforce · MuleSoft · Boomi · Workato · Kong

18AWS

ERP, HCM & EPM

Covered by independent platforms below

Any cloud: SAP S/4HANA · Workday · NetSuite · OneStream · Anaplan · ServiceNow

19AWS

Low-code

Amplify

Any cloud: OutSystems · Mendix · Appian · ServiceNow App Engine · Salesforce Platform

Vendor-neutral by design

Technology Without Boundaries.

FixityTech is a vendor-neutral, full-stack IT services partner that helps organizations modernize, secure and run their technology — from cloud and data to AI, applications and managed operations — on the platforms that fit their business, not ours.

We hold partnerships across major platforms but no single-vendor allegiance. Every recommendation is based on your requirements, total cost of ownership and existing investments.

Delivered from Chicago, USA, San Francisco, USA, Querétaro, Mexico (nearshore), Hyderabad, India (offshore) — onsite, nearshore, offshore and blended teams; follow-the-sun support.

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How we engage

Discover. Roadmap. Deliver. Run & Improve.

  1. 01

    Discover

    Rapid assessment of current platforms, data and priorities — 2–3 weeks.

  2. 02

    Roadmap

    Joint modernization roadmap, architecture and business case aligned to client goals.

  3. 03

    Deliver

    Pilot kickoff, then phased delivery with embedded governance.

  4. 04

    Run & Improve

    Managed services with SLAs and continuous optimization — closes the lifecycle loop.

Engagement models

Buy the Way That Fits

How Program Delivery & Advisory engagements are bought.

  1. 01

    Discovery & Assessment

    Fixed-fee, time-boxed (2–4 week) assessment producing findings, roadmap and business case.

    Best for

    New clients, migrations, AI/data strategy, security

    Pricing

    Fixed fee

  2. 02

    Fixed-Scope Project

    Defined scope, deliverables and timeline.

    Best for

    Implementations, migrations waves, app builds

    Pricing

    Fixed price / milestones

  3. 03

    Agile Delivery (T&M)

    Flexible sprint-based delivery where scope evolves.

    Best for

    Product engineering, complex modernization

    Pricing

    Time & materials / capped T&M

  4. 04

    Fractional Leadership

    Part-time CIO / CDO / CAIO / CISO.

    Best for

    Mid-market, PE portfolio companies

    Pricing

    Monthly retainer

Industries

Industries We Serve

Public Sector, Healthcare, Higher Ed, Financial Services, Private Equity portfolio companies.

Healthcare & Life Sciences

Modernization, data and security for providers, payers and life-sciences organizations.

Public Sector

Federal, state and local agencies modernizing legacy systems and citizen services.

Higher Education

Student, research and administrative platforms built to be accessible and secure.

Financial Services & Insurance

Trusted data, AI and applications for regulated financial institutions.

Private Equity Portfolio Companies

Technology due diligence, integration and value-creation programmes for portfolio companies.

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