For Principals at Architectural firms who need predictable delivery, protected reputation and peace of mind.
Ready to stop fighting emergencies so you can protect your design intent?
Find out where your projects are solid, where control slips away, and what to fix first. 9 questions, 5 minutes.
The Project Delivery Health Check is a free 9-question diagnostic.
It shows where control of project delivery may be breaking down, and exactly where to focus first. It takes only 5 minutes. Results are instant.
Most teams score between 20% and 59%. Your score isn't a verdict, it's your starting point.
After reviewing your results, you'll know exactly where to focus first. Protect your design intent, fees, health and reputation through controlled project delivery.
Free · 5 minutes · One follow-up with insights, then you decide
What you'll discover in 5 minutes.
Payoff 1: See exactly where your delivery breaks down.
You'll discover: where your delivery sits across the five Razor SHARP pillars and five tiers, from Reactive to Optimised.
Without: guessing, blaming your team, or fixing the wrong problems.
Payoff 2: Understand what your score means for live projects.
You'll discover: a clear read on your level in each pillar and the risk it carries on real work, so the number becomes insight, not just a rating.
Without: vague advice, generic best practice, or being told what you already know.
Payoff 3: Walk away knowing where to focus first.
You'll discover: your precise starting point, your biggest gaps, and the one place to start, so you stop fighting emergencies before the next project.
Without: overhauling your firm, needing perfect people, or replacing your software.
Most Principals find their biggest delivery gap isn't where they expected. Five minutes shows you yours.
Built on 30+ years of project delivery experience across 4 countries.
Razor SHARP
Razor SHARP Pillars Explained
Start With Clarity
Scope, deliverables, and key decisions are clear before momentum takes over. Assumptions are surfaced early, before they become costly change, delay, or dispute.
Hone The Checks
The right reviews happen while cost, programme, and quality can still be protected. Drift from expectations is caught early, before it becomes rework.
Assign Real Owners
Critical decisions, deliverables, and interfaces have accountable owners from the start. Under pressure, responsibility stays visible, so the right actions keep the project moving.
Run One Workflow
The team works to one clear delivery rhythm and one trusted source of truth. Information moves by design, reducing duplication, confusion, and decision delay.
Prime The System
What worked, failed, and changed is fed back into the way projects are delivered. Capability compounds, so teams do not keep paying for the same gaps.
Razor SHARP bridges the gaps. Your health check shows which one to close first.
Why this Health Check exists
I have been inside the problems this Health Check is built to find.
Experience has taught me that reactive projects usually come down to the same issues. It's not a people problem, or a lack of effort or knowledge. It's rushed starts that lead to poor preparation, information sharing and communication, causing issues that become more complex with time.
It can appear that a clear plan is in place, but each team's understanding of it can be quite different. After the design process starts, it may take only a few changes to scope or direction before loss of control. I've seen why coordination breaks down and problems surface late at the most costly of times.
This Health Check is how I make those gaps visible. It shows where you are now, allowing you to decide what needs strengthening first. It shows you the path to the continuous evolution of effective project delivery. It's built on the five pillars of the Razor SHARP method as described above. It gives delivery leads a practical, embedded system they can run with clarity.
Take the Health Check, your email stays with V&RB. I'll send one follow-up with insights from your results. Reply and let me know if you'd like to go deeper, or if you'd prefer I leave you alone, either way, I'll respect your answer.
Rick Aspin
30+ years improving project delivery across England, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, and Canada
From Inception to Site
Design Kickoff
Projects often start without confirmed scope or existing conditions. If this is the case, delivery can carry hidden assumptions from start to finish. They always surface, usually late, when they cost the most to fix and the source is hard to trace. Fingers start pointing. It can feel like ‘this is just the way it is’ but it does not have to be.
Tracked early, assumptions stay visible, manageable, and fixable before they compound.
Coordination
Assumptions must be caught before they become decisions. Design reviews are required in three dimensions, not only two. Checks against 2D exports alone allow a staggering number of issues to survive. The drawings look clean, clashes appear resolved, and the team moves on. It’s only during procurement or site installation that the truth shows.
Staged reviews of two and three dimensional deliverables surface issues for resolution early.
Construction
The hidden issues finally land here, as emergency RFIs and rework, at the worst possible time. The team is at its largest, and deeper work sits on concealed gaps. Re-coordinating what should have been visible long ago is now at its costliest. The real cost is time, money and the team’s health. Design intent is at risk, as delivery becomes a daily firefight and reputations are on the line.
Only after late changes to scope should RFIs require major redesign. Starting with Clarity is the answer.
5 minutes now saves months of fighting emergencies later.
See where your delivery stands.
