On track, two asks

Atlas Programme · May steering update. A status deck is a decision instrument, not a diary: what moved, what we are watching, and the decisions we need while there is still time to act. This deck is built that way — and shows you how.

02 This period

On track overall — the UAT slip is contained, two decisions due today

Scope On track Schedule Watch Budget On track Risk Watch

Shipped this period

  • Platform build passed integration test
  • Enablement wave one trained, 96% attendance

Watching now

  • Migration dry run waits on the vendor decision
  • UAT start slipped two weeks; go-live still holds

Next, before the review

  • Close the vendor decision, start dry run one
  • Sign off UAT scripts with the business leads
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03 Workstreams

Three of four workstreams green — migration needs today’s decision

Workstream
Scope
Schedule
Budget
Risk
Trend
Platform build
Data migration
Enablement
Reporting

 on track  ·   watch  ·   at risk  ·  arrow = trend since last steering

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04 Milestones

Go-live holds at 28 Nov — UAT absorbs the slip

MilestoneOwnerDueStatus
Design freezeProduct14 MarDone
Platform build completeEngineering30 JunOn track
Migration dry run oneData15 AugAt risk
UAT startBusiness29 SepSlipped 2 wks
Go-liveProgramme28 NovHolds

Status at 31 May · plan of record v3.

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05 Risks

Every open risk carries an owner and a date

RiskImpact if it landsMitigationOwnerSeverity
Vendor capacity in Q3Dry run slips past AugustSecond vendor pre-qualified; decision todayPMOHigh
Legacy data qualityReconciliation re-work in UATProfiling done; cleanup sprint in JuneData leadMedium
Key-person dependencyIntegration knowledge in one headPairing since May; runbook by 30 JunEng. managerMedium

Full register in the appendix pack · reviewed weekly.

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06 Decisions

Two decisions today keep November safe

Decision 1

Approve the migration vendor

The €80k contract closes the dry-run capacity gap; two weeks of onboarding are already in the plan.

Decide by 7 Jun · sponsor: CFO

Decision 2

Release one data engineer

Four weeks from Team B unblocks the reconciliation scripts before the cleanup sprint ends.

Decide by 14 Jun · sponsor: CTO

If either slips

Go-live moves a month — the workplan slide shows the path either way.

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07 Part two
Part two

The evidence behind the headline

Numbers, spend, the plan, and what moves next period.

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08 The numbers

The programme in three numbers

62%
Scope delivered and accepted.
€1.9m
Spent of the €2.4m budget.
11/14
Milestones hit on their original date.

Programme office, status at 31 May.

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09 Budget

Spend tracks plan — €0.2m under, contingency untouched

Cumulative spend runs just under the curve; the gap is timing, not scope.

  • ·Forecast at completion: €2.35m
  • ·Contingency of €150k not drawn
  • ·Vendor contract adds €80k from June

Source: finance actuals to 31 May.

JanMarMay
PlannedActual
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10 Workplan

The plan to November on one slide

Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
Platform
build
Build & integrate
Data
migration
Dry runs & cutover
UAT
Scripts & execution
Enablement
Train the regions
Go-live

Programme office · plan of record v3.

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11 Next period

What moves before the next steering

Next two weeks

Close the asks

Vendor signed, engineer released, dry-run environment ready.

By next steering

Dry run one

First migration dry run complete; UAT scripts signed off.

The quarter

UAT running

Business testing underway; go/no-go criteria agreed for November.

The focus

Protect the migration critical path — everything else on the plan has slack.

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12 Dependencies

Three cross-team needs — one blocked

We needFromByStatus
Security review slotIT Security20 JunRequested
API rate-limit increasePlatform team30 JunAgreed
Anonymised test data setFinance ops15 JunBlocked

Escalation path: programme sponsor → CIO weekly.

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13 Changes

Scope changes stay inside contingency

Change requestCostScheduleStatus
CR-11 · Drop the legacy export−€15k±0 weeksApproved
CR-12 · French localisation+€40k±0 weeksIn review
CR-13 · Extra training wave+€20k+1 weekDeclined

Change board of 22 May · net approved to date: +€25k.

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14 So what
The habit

A status update is a decision instrument, not a diary. Lead with what changed — and ask early, because bad news does not improve with age.

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15 Open canvas

How the business actually fits together

One page: who we serve, what we must own, and where the money comes from.

Who we serve
Mid-market teams shipping a deck most weeks
What they get
A finished, on-brand file in one pass
How they arrive
Word of mouth, then the free prompt page
Must own
The template contract and the converter — the two things nobody else has
Can rent
Hosting, payments, the model itself
What it costs
Engineering time; almost no marginal cost per deck
Where the money is
Teams standardising on one deck format, paying per seat
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16 Progress

Where the rollout stands

Teams migrated to the templateon track86%
Twelve of fourteen teams have moved; the last two land next sprint.
Decks converting without a manual fixwatching64%
Charts are clean; the remaining gap is hand-drawn diagrams.
Legacy files still on the old masterblocked31%
Waiting on the brand refresh before we touch them.
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17 Activation

Of 1,000 trials, 163 become paying teams

Two steps — the first invite and week two — cost more than the other five together.

1,000Started a trial
−46Never opened it
−131No data imported
−86Stalled in setup
−239Never invited a colleague
−217Lapsed in week two
−94Budget refused
−25Churned in month two
163Paying
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18 Architecture

Four tiers, one shared foundation

01

What customers touch

Everything a person opens, and nothing that stores.

Web appMobilePartner widget
02

The API edge

One gateway: auth, rate limits, and every audit record.

AuthRate limitsAudit log
03

Domain services

Nine services, each owning its own store.

BillingDocumentsIdentity
04

The data foundation

One warehouse every tier reads from, and nothing writes around.

WarehouseEvent bus
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19 Data platform

Four systems, and everything crosses one link

Three of these edges fail loudly. The replication into the warehouse fails quietly.

01 · Ingest

Event stream

38 sources, change data capture

02 · Warehouse

Analytics store

The only place all four agree

03 · Models

Semantic layer

412 metric definitions

04 · Activation

Dashboards and sync

What the business acts on

replication · 12 min lag
nightly build
governed metrics only
write-back
single point of failure
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20 The engine

The loop compounds, and one step leaks

Every turn should add users. Activation is where the turn loses them.

More users

Every new team adds sources

Better data

Volume sharpens the defaults

Better product

Fewer steps to a finished deck

Each turn should cost less
than the one before it
sharpens
attracts
feeds
activation drop −38% lag 11 days
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21 The plan

Four quarters, three workstreams, two dependencies

Everything below the migration waits on the migration.

Q1Q2Q3Q4
PlatformAna R.

Billing migration

Old ledger retired

Second region

EU write path live

ProductJonas W.

Usage pricing

Needs the new ledger

Self-serve upgrade

No sales call under €5k

blocked until Q2
SupportMei L.

Ticket triage

One queue, one owner

Migration backlog

Two regions to answer for

needs 2 hires
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22 Close
Next steps

Two asks on the table — next steering 25 June

The asks

Vendor approval by 7 Jun; the engineer by 14 Jun.

Between steerings

Weekly one-pager to sponsors; escalations any time.

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