A project needs direction
Unresolved changes, delayed decisions, or unclear responsibilities are putting delivery under pressure.
Devnua · Founder-led management consultancy
Fractional Program Executive
for complex capital programs.
Resolve the immediate delivery problem. Build the system your team can run.
Embedded owner-side leadership for public agencies, institutions, and private owners. Terry Devlin works inside your team to address delivery problems, build practical standards into your working tools, and train the people who run them.
Discuss Your Project with Terry
Founder · Devnua
When to bring Devnua in
When the work needs more leadership capacity.
Your leadership team is stretched
Add experienced support through a vacancy, transition, demanding project, or growing portfolio.
Your organization needs consistency
Turn practices that work into shared standards, connected tools, and training your teams can use across projects.
The problem
Your people are capable.
The work needs direction.
When responsibilities are unclear, records are inconsistent, and workflows are disconnected, every project works differently. Leaders chase information, fix handoffs, and correct avoidable rework.
Devnua connects leadership and implementation inside the team: diagnose the problem, design the standard, put it into working tools, train the people, and establish reliable project records.
The offer
Address the project. Strengthen the system around it.
Protect your priorities
Evaluate scope, contracts, and delivery tradeoffs from the owner’s perspective. Keep recommendations aligned with the program’s objectives and approval authority.
Act on delivery risk
Review cost and schedule exposure, changes, and unresolved issues. Establish clear owners and escalation routes before decisions become overdue.
Put experience in the room
Work directly with Terry on project reviews, difficult coordination meetings, and executive decisions. Agree the responsibility and level of involvement your team needs.
Make accountability clear
Connect staff, consultants, and contractors through defined responsibilities, shared records, and tracked commitments. Coach the team as the practices take hold.
Turn records into decisions
Bring source information, options, risks, and recommendations into a concise leadership brief. Record the authorized decision and track the next action.
Start with a difficult project or a defined leadership gap. Address the immediate priorities, implement the working practices, train the team, and turn lessons into standards for wider use. The fractional role gives this work an accountable senior lead within an agreed scope.
Founder experience
20+ years
Capital program leadership.
$2.5B
Managed Directly
Capital programs and portfolios under Terry’s direct management.
$15B+
Programs Supported
Combined value of capital programs supported throughout Terry’s career.
Founder experience
Experience behind the role
From project delivery to regional operations.
Terry’s background connects owner-side capital delivery with staffing, portfolio oversight, contract administration, and executive reporting.
Education and regulated facilities
Career experience includes active-campus delivery, DSA coordination, and healthcare and behavioral-health facilities in HCAI/OSHPD environments.
Operations and team leadership
Experience across regional operations, procurement, financial performance, client service, and multidisciplinary project teams.
Technology applied to delivery
Hands-on work with digital tools, workflow design, and AI-assisted processes informs how Terry connects project knowledge to daily practice.
Founder experience includes assignments with prior organizations.
Practical deliverables
Working tools your team can use.
Technology and AI support defined tasks: organizing project records, preparing draft summaries, extracting proposed actions, and connecting logs. Source checks, approved tools, and human review keep responsibility clear.
See an illustrative executive decision brief
Depending on the agreed scope, deliverables can include:
- A workflow with a tracking log, named owners, and escalation rules.
- A role-and-responsibility matrix that makes handoffs and decision authority clear.
- A documentation standard the team can run, supported by training and implementation.
DEVNUA / CONNECTED DELIVERYILLUSTRATIVE WORKFLOW
Your project information.
Your team’s next move.
Technology assists. People review, decide, and lead.
- CAPTURE · PROJECT TEAMBring the records together
Meeting notes, correspondence, change records, and project logs.
- ASSIST · AI + DIGITAL TOOLSPrepare the work for review
Draft summaries, extract proposed actions, and flag missing information for verification.
- REVIEW · PROGRAM LEADERSHIPApply experience and judgment
Check the source records, clarify responsibility, and prepare a recommendation.
- DECIDE + TRACK · AUTHORIZED TEAMTurn decisions into follow-through
Record the approval, assign the action, and use tracking and reminders to keep it visible.
CONNECTED OUTPUTS
Decision record · Action log · Leadership brief
Illustrative approach, tailored to the engagement and approved tools. Human review precedes action.
Hands-on technology capability
Construction leadership. Working digital tools.
80+ AI and productivity tools evaluated. Terry’s experience building websites, digital tools, and workflows complements his capital-program and operations background.
Within an engagement, Devnua can assess the tools, configure the workflow, and train the team. Selection starts with the delivery problem, the information involved, and the people accountable for the work.
An AI-assisted RFI workflow, for example, can help organize source records, flag missing information, draft summaries, and track proposed actions. The responsible professionals review the sources and retain technical judgment and approval authority.
The RFI workflow is illustrative. Tool evaluation experience is part of Terry’s founder background, not a claim of vendor certification or endorsement.
How it works
Start with the work in front of you.
- Understand
- Listen to your team, establish the priorities, and define what needs to improve.
- Diagnose
- Trace the decisions, records, responsibilities, and handoffs causing problems.
- Optimize
- Design the standard: responsibilities, documentation, workflows, and escalation rules.
- Implement
- Build the standard into working tools, test it on the project, and train the people who run it.
- Measure
- Review progress, check record quality and team adoption, and hand over practices the team can maintain.
Supporting the engagement
Make the improvements part of daily practice.
SALSA, the Project Documentation Suite, combines training and implementation for meeting records, change documentation, correspondence, logs, and decision tracking. Workforce training, including Run the Room, helps people use those practices with confidence. Organizational systems connect project-level improvements to the way the wider team works.
These are supporting tools and services within the leadership engagement, selected to fit the work.
Who we serve
Capital delivery across complex environments.
Education · Healthcare · Civic and public works · Federal and military · Institutional and multifamily development
What remains with your team
Build the standard. Train the team. Leave lasting capability.
For owners and institutions
Clear responsibilities, traceable decisions, and consistent records support stewardship, contractual obligations, and review of project exposure.
For PM/CM firms
Practical workflows and shared standards connect leadership expectations to project execution. Staff learn to run the system and carry useful practices into the next assignment.
The agreed handover includes working procedures, responsibility maps, tracking records, and training. Review what the team can operate independently and identify any ongoing support before the engagement closes.
Your next step
Discuss your project with Terry.
Discuss the project, the decisions that are stalled, and the support your team needs. Terry will explore the priorities, the working relationships, and whether a defined fractional role is the right fit.
Discuss Your Project with Terry