IT Roadmap Sprint (vCIO)
Three weeks to a 12-month prioritized technology roadmap and budget model, board-ready, built with your team rather than about them.
What you get
- A 12-month prioritized roadmapProjects, sequencing, and owners, ranked by risk reduced and value created, with the reasoning attached.
- An IT budget modelRun costs, project costs, and renewals in one model finance can interrogate line by line.
- A risk registerThe aging systems, single points of failure, and contract cliffs, each with a cost of doing nothing.
- Vendor and contract reviewEvery recurring technology contract on one page: renewal date, cost trend, and leverage.
- A board-ready summaryThe whole thing compressed to the pages leadership will actually read, in their language.
What we need from you
- Interviews with leadership and IT (about six hours total across the three weeks).
- The current technology spend, however it is scattered: invoices, contracts, a spreadsheet.
- Honest answers about what has been kicked down the road. Everything stays in confidence.
Timeline
Interviews and estate/contract inventory.
Risk register, prioritization working session with your team, and budget modeling.
Roadmap assembly, board summary, and presentation to leadership.
Who it's for, and who it isn't
- You have an IT manager but no CIO, and a board or PE sponsor asking CIO-level questions.
- Budget season is coming and the technology ask needs a defensible story.
- A transaction, audit, or systems decision is approaching and needs an owner.
- You want a rubber stamp on decisions already made. The roadmap says what the findings say.
- You need full-time technology leadership. This sprint often precedes a vCIO retainer, but it is not one.
Sample deliverable: table of contents
- 1 · Executive summary (board-ready)
- 2 · Current-state estate and contract inventory
- 3 · Risk register with cost-of-inaction
- 4 · 12-month prioritized roadmap
- 5 · Budget model
- 6 · Quarter-one action plan
Common questions
Who from our side needs to participate?
Leadership and IT, about six hours total across three weeks: interviews in week one, a prioritization working session in week two, and the presentation in week three. The roadmap is built with your team, which is why they execute it afterward.
Is this just the opening act for a retainer pitch?
The sprint often precedes a vCIO retainer, and we are honest about that. But the deliverable is complete on its own: roadmap, budget model, and board summary, usable with or without us in the room next quarter.
How is this different from our MSP’s quarterly review?
An MSP review is written by a vendor with products to renew. This sprint is independent, priced flat, and built from findings; nothing in the roadmap earns us a commission, which changes what ends up on it.
What if leadership disagrees with the priorities?
Good; the working session exists for that argument. Every priority carries its evidence and its cost of inaction, the budget model has adjustable assumptions, and disagreement with the inputs beats silent disagreement with the plan.
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Connect with us about your next twelve months.
Three weeks, six hours of your time, and a roadmap your board can read. The scope call takes fifteen minutes.