I run complex programmes for large organisations and build software on the side.

Sometimes the software becomes the more interesting story.

Fifteen years delivering the kind of projects that tend to go wrong. Founded and built ka-do — an intelligent task manager - because the problem was genuinely unsolved....

Steve Drew
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Things I've shipped

ka-do task list, showing this week's tasks grouped by day

ka-do

Live

A task manager for people who are genuinely overwhelmed, not just busy. Built using React, Firebase and a lot of late nights. 

Atlantikwall Archive

Live

A research archive for WWII Atlantic Wall coastal defences, maintained by my father. I keep the lights on technically. He does the hard part.

Is your project in trouble?

Live

A free AI diagnostic tool for PMs and business owners. Seven questions. Ten minutes. A one-page report you can take into any meeting.

Delivery

I've spent fifteen years working with organisations like Asda, Morrisons, Burberry, the Premier League and KPMG — and I'm usually brought in when something important is behind, broken, or both.

I work as an independent consultant. Engagements tend to be programme recovery, complex integrations, and digital transformation work that's gone sideways.

Currently taking on contract work — the best starting point is LinkedIn →

High-Value Outcomes

Enterprise Digital Transformation

Large-scale change that actually lands: technology, process and people moved together, with the delivery discipline to survive contact with a real organisation. Fifteen years doing this inside household-name enterprises.

Programme Recovery

A programme that's slipped, stalled, or gone quiet gets diagnosed before it gets replanned: triage first, then a route back you can defend upward. Most recoveries start with what your own team already knows.

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Complex Integration Delivery

Multiple systems, suppliers and teams that have to land as one working thing. The unglamorous sequencing, dependency and cutover work that decides whether integration is an event or a year of firefighting.

Interim Delivery Leadership

An empty delivery seat filled fast by someone who's held it many times before: steady hands from week one, no six-month ramp, and a clean handover when the permanent hire lands.

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AI Adoption & Delivery Automation

Working automation, not slideware. AI applied to real delivery work (capture, reporting, pipelines, QA) by someone who has spent the last year building with it daily, not reading about it.

PMO & Delivery Capability Build

The machinery that runs the next programme without you: standards, cadence, reporting and tooling your own team keeps. The engagement that ends deliberately.