04About the practice

One person. Fourteen years. Carries a written history of every engagement.

A one-person consulting practice. Most months in flight on one or two engagements, with room for a short discovery if the work fits.

I run a one-person consulting practice. Most months I'm in flight on one or two engagements, and I keep room for a third short discovery if the work fits. The output is always written and the scope is always fixed before the work starts.

The library exists because the same six artefacts get rebuilt at the start of every programme, and there's no good reason for any practitioner to do that from scratch. I rebuild them properly, ship the editions, then move on.

The work I take on is usually about discipline, not novelty. Setting up a PMO that holds. Recovering a programme that's slipped past two milestones. Standing in as fractional director while a permanent one is being hired. The thread is senior judgement, in the room, for as long as it takes to make the discipline self-sustaining, then out.

I don't take revenue-share, equity-instead-of-cash, or open-ended retainers. The engagement model is described on the practice page.

·Credentials
PMPProject Management Institute
CBAPIIBA · Certified Business Analysis Professional
PMI-PBAPMI · Professional in Business Analysis
NDA-defaultAll engagements under signed NDA
14 yearsEnterprise programme delivery
9 sectorsBanking, healthcare, energy, telecom
·Confidentiality

NDA-default. No client names published.

Every engagement runs under a signed mutual NDA. Public case studies appear only with explicit written sign-off and named clients only where the client has authorised the use of their name. Otherwise the case study runs anonymised.

·Engagement model

Fixed fee. Written outcomes. Honest close-down clause.

The scope is set in a discovery week before any commitment. The proposal lists the deliverables, the cadence, the cost, and the conditions under which we'd stop early. If we stop early, you don't pay for time we didn't deliver.

·Frequently asked
01 How does an engagement actually start?
30-minute scoping call (free, no obligation). Within 48 hours after, you get a written proposal with scope, fee, timeline, and dependencies. Sign-off and kickoff happen within a week if the proposal lands. For Discovery Sprints (2-week engagements) you can typically start the following Monday.
02 What does a typical engagement with you look like?
Most engagements run **6 to 14 weeks** with a short Discovery up front, then a delivery phase with fixed weekly cadence (RAID review, stakeholder check-in, demo). I work as a **fractional or interim** lead. Embedded enough to own outcomes, light enough that your team doesn't outsource thinking.
03 What size of programme are you most useful on?
**$2M to $20M** in programme budget, **3 to 15 engineering / vendor teams**. Smaller than that and a single TPM is usually enough. Bigger than that and you'd want a permanent PMO leader rather than a fractional one. The sweet spot is the programme that just got messy.
04 Who actually does the work? Is this an agency?
Varun Vashisht does the work directly. This is not an agency model. There's no junior consultant we're going to hand the engagement to. For larger programmes we bring in carefully selected collaborators (named upfront in the proposal), but the senior judgement and primary delivery is Varun. PMP · CBAP · PMI-PBA · 14 years across Healthcare / Oil & Energy / Fintech / Telecom.
05 Are you Agile, Waterfall, or SAFe?
**Whichever the situation needs.** I'm certified in PMP, CBAP, PMI-PBA and have shipped at SAFe-scale, but the most successful programmes I've run mix cadences. Agile inside engineering teams, milestoned governance for execs, waterfall-style contractual commitments to vendors. The methodology is a tool, not an identity.
06 Why is pricing on the higher end?
Two reasons. First, the work is genuinely senior. You're getting 14 years of enterprise programme experience doing the actual delivery, not selling-then-handing-off. Second, every engagement comes with a fixed-fee SOW. You pay for the outcome, not the hours. That's only sustainable if the fee covers the risk. If pricing is the blocker for a real problem, talk to us. We'll work out the right tier.
·Get in touch

The most useful first step is a thirty-minute call.

No deck, no fee. I'll tell you whether I'm the right fit. Book a call →