Capabilities
IT Project Recovery
SolStak has a proven, successful track record of completing major project recoveries. Defence and State government customers have called on us on numerous occasions to assist when programmes are in distress—to replan, rebaseline, restrategise, re-architect, re-engineer, and recover. We bring our own team, establish a project recovery governance framework, and restore delivery control and stakeholder confidence. We engineer. We implement. We recover—not advisory reports that leave you to fix the programme alone. As full-stack ICT subject matter experts, we can cover the complete recovery of any programme, often under revised budget and in shorter time than traditional turnaround approaches.
Proven Defence & Government Recovery
Our recoveries are not generic templates applied from the outside—they are grounded in the realities of assured environments, multi-agency governance, and complex vendor landscapes. Customers in Defence and State agencies trust SolStak because we have repeatedly returned major ICT initiatives to measurable progress: clear baselines, accountable milestones, and outcomes leadership can stand behind.
Full-Stack Recovery Leadership
Recovery fails when no one owns the whole stack—or when advisors stop at the slide deck. SolStak brings our own team: security-cleared architects, engineers, and delivery leads who work alongside your stakeholders from assessment through to live recovery. We engineer the fix, we implement the change, and we recover the programme—architecture, security, data, integration, cloud, and operations in one accountable squad. That is how we compress timelines, reduce rework, and deliver under budget where others add layers of consultants without closing the gaps.
Recovery Intervention
We work with sponsors and steering groups to recognise when intervention is required—and when it is not premature. Clear performance thresholds, earned-value signals, risk triggers, and stakeholder sentiment are agreed up front so recovery actions start at the right moment, with executive mandate and a shared definition of what "under control" looks like.
Project Assessment
We assess existing controls, delivery artefacts, vendor performance, and root causes of poor outcomes—schedule, cost, scope, quality, or assurance. When stakeholders perceive a programme is no longer under control, we provide an independent, evidence-based view of health: what is recoverable, what must change, and what trade-offs are unavoidable.
Project Recovery Governance Framework
We establish a project recovery governance framework tailored to your programme—defining decision rights, steering and working-group structures, stage gates, assurance checkpoints, and escalation paths. Roles and responsibilities for sponsors, delivery leads, vendors, and independent reviewers are made explicit so recovery decisions are timely, auditable, and aligned with agency or Defence governance requirements rather than ad hoc crisis management.
Develop Recovery Plan
We produce a documented recovery strategy—revised scope, rebaselined schedule and budget, re-architected technical approach where needed, and explicit risk treatments. The plan is a roadmap stakeholders can approve: sequenced actions, decision points, dependencies, and success criteria that remain valid even when the programme has been under adversity for months.
Implement Recovery Actions
We execute the recovery plan with our own people in the room—re-engineering unsound solutions, renegotiating vendor commitments where necessary, and stabilising teams so delivery can resume. We engineer. We implement. We recover. Timely, hands-on action minimises further cost and reputational damage; delay is often the most expensive choice on a distressed programme.
Stakeholder Communication
Open, candid communication between sponsors, governance forums, and the delivery team rebuilds trust. We establish reporting rhythms, escalation paths, and plain-language status so boards and agencies see progress, risks, and decisions transparently—not filtered optimism that collapses at the next review.
Monitor and Adjust
Recovery is not a one-off reset. We continuously monitor progress against the rebaselined plan, adjust tactics when assumptions change, and ensure alignment with strategic objectives until the programme is sustainably back on track—or closed with integrity if recovery is no longer viable.