Field notes
From the war room.
Short, sharp notes from 18 years of taking over regulated programmes that have gone red — the politics, the method, and the regulatory reality nobody writes down. No thought-leadership fluff.
The politics
Why your SteerCo is lying to you
Not maliciously. Structurally. Amber is a negotiated colour — and you can’t recover a programme that’s officially fine.
The method
The first 7 days of a red programme
Before the plan, before the Gantt. Week one is not about the schedule — it’s about the truth and the map.
Regulatory
NIS2: nobody’s neck is on the line — and that’s the problem
Denmark left personal management liability out of its transposition. Everyone read that as relief. It’s actually why the controls stay on paper.