Governance Review

Requirements & Specification Governance Review

A focused review of a requirements document, specification, or RFP — before it drives expensive delivery.

Review context

Before unclear requirements become expensive delivery risk.

Most transformation failures don't begin in code. They begin earlier, in the requirements: ownership left implicit, scope quietly mixed, acceptance criteria that can't be tested, contradictions no one noticed until build time. By the time delivery starts, the cost of these gaps has already compounded.

This is a review service for that moment. You send a requirements document, a vendor specification, an RFP package, or a set of requirements. I return a structured governance review that shows where intent, ownership, traceability, and coherence have fragmented — while correction is still affordable.

What you receive

A professional review report covering:

  • Overall readiness and the dominant governance risks in the material
  • Specific findings, each tied to the exact quoted source fragment — not generic commentary
  • Where ownership, scope, acceptance evidence, or traceability is weak or contradictory
  • Concrete recommendations and the open questions to resolve before delivery begins

The review is source-bounded: every conclusion is tied to your material and quoted evidence, not broad inference. It is prepared as a reviewed professional deliverable, not a raw automated transcript.

How it works

A focused method for reviewing one document or specification.

Step 1

You send the document or specification to be reviewed.

Step 2

I run it through a consistent governance method developed across institutional systems including the European Patent Office and Eurostat, and refined in ALManac.

Step 3

You receive the review report, followed by a session to walk through findings and priorities.

This is a focused, fixed-scope engagement on a single document or specification. It is the natural first step before a larger advisory or architecture engagement — and it stands on its own.

Scope boundary

What this review does not do.

  • It does not replace legal, procurement, compliance, security, or financial review.
  • It does not select a vendor, approve a contract, or guarantee delivery outcomes.
  • It does not redesign the full enterprise architecture or produce a complete implementation plan.
  • It does not review source code, infrastructure, or production operations unless they are part of the supplied material.

The value is an independent governance read on the material itself: where intent, ownership, traceability, acceptance evidence, and coherence are strong enough to proceed, and where they need correction first.

Who it's for

Independent review before a document drives delivery.

Organizations evaluating a vendor specification before committing, teams preparing requirements for delivery handoff, and governance owners who need an independent read on whether the thinking behind a transformation is coherent before the build begins.

Next step

A focused review before expensive work begins.

If you have a document that's about to drive expensive work, the contact page is the way to start.

Looking for ongoing architectural and governance guidance? See Advisory.