Timo Koola / Skadi Oy
Software projects fail for human reasons.
Not technical ones. The strategy changed. The vendor isn't delivering. Two teams aren't talking. The budget assumed everything would go right. I find the real problem and fix it.
Tell me what's stuckThe reality
You've been told it's a technical problem. It almost never is.
It's the vendor contract signed two years ago that no longer makes sense. It's the reorg that left three people thinking they own the same decision. It's the gap between what the business needs and what the development team was asked to build. It's the skill gaps nobody wants to name out loud. It's the cost structure that made sense at a different scale.
The code is a symptom. Everything around it is the disease.
How it works
Walk in, listen
I talk to everyone involved — not just the dev team. Business owners, vendors, end users, the person who left. The real story is in the gaps between what different people believe is happening.
Name the actual problem
Not the reported one. The real blocker — whether it's a contract, a strategy mismatch, a missing skill, a political fence, or yes, sometimes the technology. Usually it's three things at once.
Do the work
I don't hand you a slide deck and leave. I stay, untangle the mess, negotiate with vendors, bridge the teams, restructure the approach, write the code — whatever it actually takes to get unstuck.
You might need this if
- The project is late and nobody agrees on why
- Your outsourcing partner keeps delivering the wrong thing
- The key developer left and took all the context
- The budget doubled but nothing shipped
- Two teams are building conflicting solutions
- The technology choice was made for political reasons
- Everyone is busy but nothing moves forward
Tell me what's stuck.
No discovery workshops. No alignment sessions. Just a conversation about what's actually going wrong.