/ Project management, Brisbane
Senior IT project managers for your program
A senior project manager owns your program's outcome from day one and reports to your sponsor against the benefit in the business case.
Your sponsors get one report that leads with the benefit being tracked, then the risks, schedule and budget. If this program can't afford to drift like the last one, we'd like to help you run it.
At Metagenics our client-side project manager ran go/no-go gates and a steering committee across a 6-month plan. The direct-to-consumer launch came in on time and on budget, with zero stock-outs.
A free 30-minute call with a senior consultant, whether or not we work together.
Delivering programs since 2010
8 sectors, from mining to professional sport
Our team has worked on programs for Metagenics, Aurizon Network, Suncorp, Origin Energy, the Hunter Valley Coal Chain Coordinator, Orica, Big W, Griffith University and The University of Queensland.
A green status report can hide a program that's drifting
Schedules slip and scope creeps while the report stays green, and trade-offs between date, scope and benefit wait for someone to own them.
We give the program one accountable owner. Your sponsor decides each trade-off with the benefit in the business case in front of them.
How we work on your program
Agree the KPI
We work through the program with your team, find where it's slipping and agree with your sponsor the KPI we're managing to.
Run one reporting cadence
A senior project manager runs governance and benefit tracking, and the board and the delivery team read the same reports.
Hand it to your team
We coach your in-house project managers through the last phase, then step back from the meetings.
What you get
One accountable owner
A senior project manager answers to your sponsor for the outcome, and the person you scope the work with runs it.
A go/no-go gate at each phase
Each phase ends with a checkpoint where your steering committee decides with the open risks in front of it.
Benefits tracked to the business case
We track benefit realisation alongside the delivery burndown, so the board sees progress against the number the investment was meant to move.
Governance you keep
We write down the governance, the reporting pack and the gate criteria, so they belong to your team when we leave.
/ Why Softwired
Why GMs bring us in
Senior project managers on every program
Every project manager on your program is senior, so nobody learns the job on your program.
Reporting a GM can act on
Our reports lead with the benefit and the risks to it, then schedule and budget. A slipping integration shows up as the revenue it puts at risk.
Coaching that leaves with the handover
At Metagenics we coached the incoming product manager hands-on before stepping back, and we built the in-house team that now runs the channel.
What this looked like at Metagenics
Metagenics brought us in as client-side project management lead. The program moved 280 regulated label artworks onto Shopify Plus with no stock-outs and launched on time and on budget. 24% of existing customers opted in on day one, and D2C revenue and customers doubled in the first year.
“The way we conquered scope creep was disciplined project management and internal communications.”
Suzie Young, Head of Digital ANZ, Metagenics
Who leads the work
Before joining Softwired, Cassy Barnes, our Head of Change and Adoption, delivered Glencore's P150 program, which saved US$165M in baseline costs within 12 months. At Anglo American she gated every go-live in her improvement portfolio on a change readiness check.
James Hallam, our Principal Consultant, led the Metagenics launch and then its multi-brand program, which grew digital revenue 88% across 2025.
Signs this is the right next step
- A program has stalled and the sponsor wants it back on track.
- You've signed a major business case and delivery can't drift.
- The program is due and nobody inside has run one this size.
- Your sponsor has asked for one report the board can act on.
The questions we get before we start.
We’re a consultancy. A contract PM fills a seat; a consultancy is accountable for the outcome. We bring our own governance, ROI tracking, and reporting cadence on day one, and we’re measured on whether the program lands.
We work alongside your in-house project managers and coach them as we go. By the time we hand over, your governance is documented and your reporting cadence holds without us.
Against the benefit in the business case, alongside schedule and budget. We agree the KPI in the first weeks and report against it in the reporting cadence we set up on day one.
Work that often runs alongside
Got a program that has to land?
In a free 30-minute call, a senior consultant looks at where your program sits and tells you where it is most likely to drift.
