Packaged help, priced up front.
Not every project problem needs an open-ended consultancy contract. These packages have a defined scope, a fixed price and a clear finish line — you know what you get and what it costs before we start. Every engagement begins with a free 20-minute consultation to make sure the package actually fits your situation.
Project Start-Up Sprint
From vague idea to a project that can actually start.
A short, structured engagement that takes a new initiative from 'we should do this' to a charter the sponsor will sign, a stakeholder map people agree on, and a delivery cadence the team can keep. You get a running start instead of a slow drift.
What you get
- Signed project charter with scope, guardrails and decision rights
- Stakeholder map with influence levels and communication plan
- Delivery cadence: ceremonies, steering rhythm, reporting format
- First-pass risk register and milestone sketch
- Handover session so the setup outlives the sprint
Best for
- A new project with a sponsor but no structure yet
- Teams that have 'started' three times without really starting
- Founders or managers handed a delivery they did not plan
Requirements & Scope Sprint
Pin down what 'done' means before the build starts.
One focused week to turn scattered requests, slide decks and hallway promises into a requirements document the business will sign off and a delivery team can estimate against. Includes the change gate that keeps scope creep from quietly eating the plan.
What you get
- Facilitated requirements workshop(s) with the right people in the room
- A prioritised requirements document (MoSCoW), reviewed and signed off
- Decision log so 'why did we choose this' is never a mystery
- A working change-control gate the team will actually use
Best for
- Projects stuck in endless pre-work because scope keeps moving
- Teams about to commit a budget on an unclear ask
- Situations where every stakeholder describes a different product
Risk & Rescue Workshop
Name what can kill the project, then agree who does what.
A facilitated session that gets the uncomfortable truths on the table: what is actually at risk, how likely, and who owns the response. You leave with a prioritised risk register and agreed mitigation actions — not a spreadsheet nobody opens again.
What you get
- 90-minute facilitated risk workshop (onsite or remote)
- Prioritised risk register with owners and responses
- Escalation rules: what goes to steering, and when
- 30-day follow-up review of the top risks
Best for
- A delivery that is drifting and nobody can say exactly why
- Teams that sense the risks but never write them down
- Steering groups that only hear about problems too late
PM Coaching Programme
Grow your own project managers instead of hiring new ones.
A structured coaching programme for new or accidental project managers. We work on their live project, not case studies: planning, stakeholder conversations, steering reporting and the hybrid PMBOK + Agile judgement calls that only come from experience.
What you get
- Weekly 1:1 coaching sessions built around the participant's live project
- Practical toolkit: charters, plans, risk registers, status reports
- Shadowing and feedback on real meetings and steering updates
- Final review with the sponsor on progress and next steps
Best for
- Organisations that promote great specialists into PM roles without support
- New PMs who know the theory but not the judgement calls
- Teams standardising how project management is done
Talks & Team Training
Educational talks and hands-on training that stick.
Educational speeches, keynotes and practical training sessions on modern hybrid project management — PMBOK structure with Agile adaptability, drawn from 13 years of real delivery at H&M, TV4, SEB and Clear Channel. Built for your team's actual situations, not generic slides.
What you get
- Talk or training tailored to your audience and industry
- Hands-on exercises using your real project scenarios
- Take-away material: cheat sheets, templates and checklists
- Optional follow-up Q&A session two weeks later
Best for
- Kick-offs, PM days and internal conferences
- Teams adopting hybrid ways of working
- Leadership groups who want to understand delivery better
Work with me
Sometimes the fix needs a person, not a template.
I am Tigran Zakarian, a senior project manager with 13 years of end-to-end delivery for clients such as H&M Group, TV4, SEB and Clear Channel. I work on exactly the situations described across this site: rescuing drifting deliveries, setting up governance that people actually use, and facilitating the workshops that unblock decisions.
Projects & programmes
- Interim / rescue project management
- Programme & multi-team delivery ownership
- PMO, governance and steering setup
- Product ownership & backlog clarity
Workshops
- Risk analysis workshops
- Planning and prioritisation sessions
- Decision and stakeholder alignment
- Retrospectives that change something
Talks & training
- Educational talks and keynotes
- Hybrid PMBOK + Agile training
- Kanban / flow ways of working
- Team coaching for new PMs