How it works
The numbers show how delivery is tracking. The people show whether it will deliver. Brightminds puts the two side by side.
01 · SET UP
Project and team details, plus your current cost and progress figures. You choose how often to run a pulse. Less than an hour of the project owner's time.
02 · TAKE A PULSE
Everyone on the project answers: sponsor, project manager, stakeholders and team. Each person gets questions written for them.
03 · READ THE REPORT
Written for the person who owns the project, in plain language. It ends with the one conversation to have after the pulse is completed.
The questions and the scores
The questions take account of your job title, your job history and your role in the project, and the project's title and description. Nobody gets an identical survey.
Delivery is the hard data. Team confidence and role alignment come from the people. Overall combines all three.
Delivery (OPI)
Reported cost and schedule progress against plan.
Team confidence (TUI)
How confident the people involved are that the project will deliver.
Role alignment (IPI)
How closely the views of sponsor, project manager, stakeholders and team line up.
Overall (PCI)
One number that combines the other three.
Every level
Dashboards and consolidated insight at every level, with a full report for each project. Filter down from the company to a single project, or start with the attention list to see which projects need you first.
Project
How each role sees it, on two questions: can we do it, and will we do it. A summary report after each pulse.
Programme
Which projects need attention, and why, with each project's progress, budget and confidence side by side.
Portfolio
What moved since the last pulse, how many projects are at risk, and recommended actions.
Company
One overall view of delivery confidence, what is driving it, and recommended actions.
Company
One overall view of delivery confidence
Portfolio
What moved since the last pulse
Programme
Which projects need attention, and why
Project
Roles, scores, and a summary report after each pulse
HOW EACH ROLE SEES IT
Can we do it?
ability to execute
Will we do it?
confidence to deliver
SUMMARY REPORT
Pulse 3
New Mobile App Build
DELIVERY
71
CONFIDENCE
59
ALIGNMENT
83
WKS REMAINING
8
70% complete
TOTAL BUDGET
$1.8M
SPEND TO DATE
$1.3M
72% of budget
YET TO SPEND
$504K
What the data in the last 3 pulses tell us
One conversation to have after the pulse
What the report shows
Can we do it? is the team's ability to execute. Will we do it? is their confidence to deliver. Each is shown for the sponsor, project manager, stakeholders and team, so you see where views differ and who stands out.
Every report ends with the one conversation to have after the pulse is completed, and arrives within minutes of the pulse closing.
The status report stayed green for four months. The team's confidence didn't. One conversation, prompted by pulse three, turned it round.
Every pulse adds a point. The picture builds over time.
Brightminds is built to surface concerns. Reports are written to be shared and include team confidence and delivery figures. Results are aggregated and can be reported up to company level.
Close the loop
Record the concern, agree a response and name an owner. A later pulse helps you see whether perspectives and delivery performance have changed.
Improvement is evidence to discuss, not automatic proof that Brightminds caused the change.
Brightminds sits alongside your existing governance and project tools and adds what the numbers can't say.
It gives you earlier visibility of concerns and misalignment. It can't guarantee that a project will succeed or fail.
It is a prompt for a conversation, not proof that the project will fail.
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We set it up; you read the reports. Then decide.