Executive Guide

You wouldn't start the project without a plan. Don't start the team without one either.

A practical guide for the executive who owns a business-critical technology initiative — and knows the team is the part most likely to go wrong. No fluff, no vendor pitch. Just the questions to answer before you hire.

The Executive's Guide

Building a Team for a Business-Critical Technology Initiative

Sizing · seniority · sequence · composition · and the roles that quietly decide the outcome.

Akshayam Consulting
What's Inside

Six chapters, one argument: the team is the deliverable.

Drawn from two decades of building specialized enterprise teams — and watching, program after program, which ones delivered and which didn't.

1

Why programs fail on people

The software is rarely the reason. This is what actually breaks, and why it's predictable.

2

The four questions that size a team

How many, at what seniority, in what mix, in what order — answered before you post a role.

3

The composition trap

Why a team heavy on technical consultants and light on functional and architecture expertise fails at go-live.

4

When cost-cutting becomes expensive

Why cutting the architect — because they're not “continuously billable” — is the costliest saving you can make.

5

Local, offshore, or blended

How to decide where the work belongs — as strategy, not as a rate play.

6

The roles that decide it

Solution architects, functional consultants, and the hard-to-source seats where one wrong hire stalls everything.

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