Your Path to Predictably Profitable Projects, Delivered On Time, Every Time.
Client projects don’t all go to plan. Some are a rollercoaster of unpredictability. Overruns and delays impact your team, client relationships and the bottom line.
One project will run smoothly, but the next is a mess. Instead of consistent, repeatable success, you’re often thrown into firefighting mode, supporting where others should be in control.
I’m Harry Bailey, and I guide struggling delivery teams to consistent project success. My decades working with project-led agencies, and in product teams using Agile approaches, gives me the broad hands-on experience to work in any context.
Years running my own agencies, and the Agile framework pragmatism that led to means I can share realistic, practical, actionable insights that will work for your projects and people. Quickly.
My approach caters for your fixed, flexible and hybrid projects. Your new and existing clients. Your small maintenance agreements, through to your multi-phase mammoth contracts.
Most agencies face challenges like these:
- Lack or loss of Client Alignment
- Vague or incorrect Estimates
- Untrusted Project Delivery methods
- Complex or fluffy Contract / SOW Formats
- Rampant Scope Creep
- Project Overruns
- Rework tsunamis
- Failing Project-led Agile attempts
I help agencies solve them, and more, with approaches that are flexible enough for your agency’s unique situation.
Every project that goes off the rails is expensive. Is it time to pinpoint and solve the challenges that are impacting your client projects?
Learn to deliver consistently great results and maintain the profit margins, without all the drama.
Let’s get started! Get Me Started
( hello@harrybailey.com )
How does the process work?
Just three Steps:
- Understand your current situation – Health Check
- Rapid Action – Approach iteration
- Fine turning and team autonomy – Approach ownership
We start with a quick call, then it’s swift improvement.
Confirming a good fit: Discovery Call
A call or coffee where we discuss the current challenges you’re facing with project delivery. From client alignment, contracts, estimation, quality, engagement, sign-off to project overruns.
You’ll share what’s working, what’s not, and where you’re feeling most pressure right now. I’ll walk you through how I help agency leaders like you move from chaos to clarity, restoring sanity, building delivery stability, and creating a repeatable formula for successful projects.
We’ll define the right next steps based on your priorities. That might mean a deeper dive through an health check workshop, or rolling up our sleeves to stabilise a project that’s off track.
We cover any remaining questions you have about my experience, background and ways of working.
Next, we’ll gain clarity.
Step 1: Health Check
I’ll lead a structured, collaborative Health Check with you and key team members, designed to quickly surface and pinpoint the true causes of your project delivery challenges.
Using practical, engaging exercises, we’ll identify and align on what’s holding your projects back, whether it’s process gaps, accountability or misaligned expectations. You’ll come away with new clarity, shared understanding across the team, and a sense of momentum.
After the session, you’ll receive a clear, actionable Insight Report. It distills what we covered and maps out next steps, pinpointing quick wins, priority fixes, and approach improvements to drive fast, lasting change.
Then we’ll make use of our new found clarity.
Step 2: Rapid Action
We’ll immediately stabilise any urgent or challenging projects, quickly restoring your team’s confidence and client trust.
We’ll collaboratively:
- Clarify scope, deadlines, and deliverables
- Identify and mitigate critical risks
- Define clear measures of project success
- Create a practical plan for rapid results
Beyond immediate fixes, we’ll start to make use of my flexible, scalable Delivery Approach Framework. A hybrid methodology I created specifically to enable agency teams to delivery consistent project success.
I’ll equip your team with targeted tools, tactics, and often tailored coaching sessions and workshops matches specifically to your team’s needs. Project managers could receive personalised training, and the whole team will benefit from the required support to permanently succeed at delivering projects.
You’ll quickly move from firefighting to confidently delivering value to clients, equipped with the skills and strategies to consistently achieve success, without the stress, overruns, or rework.
Step 3: Fine turning and team autonomy
Building on our progress, I share everything your team will need to maintain the quality of their new delivery approach.
Once we agree that you’re comfortably in control, I’ll step back, leaving you to continue delighting your clients.
If you feel like a refresh would be helpful in the future, I can support with additional training or coaching.
If you still have questions, let’s have a no-strings chat. Find me on LinkedIn or click below. Book My Intro Call
( hello@harrybailey.com )
What Others Say
Really impressed with the work Harry did for our team this year. He is able to switch between the strategic and the tactical effortlessly, showing a willingness to tackle problems, craft solutions and reflect on the procedural, cultural and operational impact of decisions and activities.
– Hilary Stephenson, MD @ Nexer Digital
I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Harry to agency teams looking to build team cohesion, improve productivity and develop a commercial mindset throughout a team.
— Tom Parson, Co-Founder @ Huddle Digital
Harry’s approach allows agency owners and teams, deep in the trenches of day-to-day project work, to step out for a much-needed bird’s-eye view.
– Frank Staiger, Founder @ Via Studios
Services
Whatever position you’re in, there’s a solution for your situation.
If you can’t find what you’re after, send me an email and we can discuss your need.
Free Content
I share thoughts and guidance for predictable project delivery, in written form, most weeks.
- Recent content I’ve shared on my LinkedIn Post History.
- Articles posted to the blog on this website.
- Flexible, scalable Agency Project Delivery Framework content.
Free of charge
Consultation Call – Specific Challenge
That gnarly delivery challenge you’re facing, that needs actionable advice quickly?
- Disengaged clients
- Rework / Quality
- Overrun
- Estimating
- Disengaged team
Book a 1-to-1 consultation call. We’ll discuss the different aspects, then I’ll give my expert insight into what action needs to be taken.
From £100/hour
Workshops
Are you looking to level up your team in one specific area? My ways-of-working workshops last around half a day.
Each focuses on a specific area of project delivery, and they always surface unseen challenges or opportunities.
A great solution if your team would benefit from a strong starting point for making their own immediate or ongoing improvements.
All include a discovery call, and most offer an Insight Report or similar write-up.
From £750
Coaching and Training
If support with meaningful and lasting improvements are your preference, my ongoing coaching and training agreements starts at the equivalent of half a day a week, whether for a team, a project manager or a mixture of those roles.
Coaching with wraparound care, giving regular opportunities for questions and reassurance.
From £2000/month
What impact you’ll see
Once I understand your specific context, I share various suitable tactics for the pivotal moments of your teams’s projects.
Teams learn how to effectively:
- Onboard a client and understand what good looks like for them.
- Define, estimate and agree an achievable project plan.
- Build client alignment, and maintain it throughout a project—with tips for the initial stages.
- Cater for new and retained clients correctly.
- Create strong project teams, even when each project brings together new team members.
- Delight clients and end projects well.
And many other tried and tested techniques that level up your existing approach to project delivery.
If you still have questions, let’s have a no-strings chat. Find me on LinkedIn or click below.Book My Intro Call
( hello@harrybailey.com )
Need a faster fix? Understand how I’ll handle that urgent delivery problem right now. Book My Priority Call
About Harry Bailey
Harry Bailey has spent over two decades helping fix the problems that derail projects, from client struggles and team dynamics to messy ways of working.
Whether it’s client alignment, scope creep, overruns or rework, Harry helps figure out what’s really going on and how to move forward.
With deep experience of team coaching, leadership coaching, and agile ways of working, shaped by years inside agencies, not just advising from the sidelines, Harry knows what it takes to deliver client projects smoothly.
Watch my recent discussion with Jac Hughes of Everyday Agile
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But… can we deliver it?
It can be tempting to rush through the early stages of a client relationship. Promising the world to build trust and worrying about how to deliver on those promises later.
Well that’s it, you’ve run out of things to read! Still have questions? I’d love to hear them. Let’s have a quick call, no strings attached. Find me on LinkedIn or Book My Intro Call