How we run an engagement, from scope to handover
Femtus scopes every engagement against the decisions leadership needs to make, agrees KPI definitions across every department involved, validates data before anything is built, and hands over documentation and ownership at the end. Method is what separates a firm from a contractor, and this page explains ours in full.
How we approach an engagement
We scope against decisions
Every engagement starts by agreeing what leadership needs to decide, and what the data would need to show for that decision to be made with confidence. We scope against those decisions, not against a list of reports someone once asked for.
We agree definitions before we measure
KPI definitions are agreed across every department that touches the metric before any reporting is built. When finance, operations, and delivery teams sign off on what a number means, the reporting that follows can be trusted instead of argued over.
We validate data before we build
Nothing is built on data we have not checked. We validate completeness, consistency, and definition alignment against source systems first, because reporting is only as reliable as what feeds it, and fixing that after launch costs more than fixing it first.
We leave something that lasts
An engagement ends with documentation, ownership, and a system your team can run without us: definitions written down, the reporting logic explained, and the people who maintain it trained to do so. Sustainability is judged after we leave, not during the engagement.
What happens during an engagement?
Discovery
We agree the decisions leadership needs to make, then work with your IT and finance teams to understand what data already exists, where it lives, and who can grant access to it. This is a conversation, not a data request form.
Design
We agree KPI definitions with every department involved, and design the reporting structure around the decisions identified in scoping. Nothing is built until the definitions are signed off by the people who will be measured by them.
Build
We validate the underlying data, then build the reporting, working alongside your existing IT and finance teams rather than around them, so the result fits inside how your organisation already operates.
Sustain
We hand over documentation, definitions, and working ownership to your team, and stay available while it beds in. The measure of a good handover is that you stop needing us for the parts we handed over.