RAID-log starter checklist
A one-page checklist for setting up a RAID log that actually gets used past week three of a programme.
Download →Pro-bono advisory practice
Free senior PM and BA help for the people who build the craft.
Chapter advisory, mentoring, and delivery counsel for professional chapters and educational non-profits, given with the same rigour as paid work. No fees. Real commitment.
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Years on enterprise programmes
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Mentees guided
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Volunteer hours
Practice Areas
Where the hours go.
Four standing commitments, chosen for reach: each hour helps someone who teaches, certifies, or delivers for others.
IIBA
Chapter Advisory
Curriculum shape, mentor tracks and standards-clinic cadence for chapters building their practitioner pipeline.
PMI
Chapter Support
Programme rigour for chapter events and PMP candidate cohorts, from study structure to examination readiness.
Non-profit
Delivery Advisory
Counsel for organisations running real programmes on thin budgets: governance, sequencing, and honest risk.
Education
Curriculum Review
Guest lectures and course review for educators teaching project management and business analysis as a craft.
Current Engagements
Open now.
Two to three causes per cycle. Scope is agreed up front. The commitment is honoured like a paid mandate.
Engagement Commitment Focus Status
IIBA chapter advisory · standards & curriculum Quarterly half-day + ~2 hours/month async Education Accepting
PMP / CBAP exam mentoring ~3 hours/week for 12 weeks Mentoring Accepting
Non-profit delivery advisory By arrangement Pro bono Waitlist
Publications
Tools I've put together.
Checklists, one-pagers, lightweight guides. Always free, no sign-up.
Stakeholder map that survives contact
The mapping format I use on enterprise engagements, adapted for small teams and volunteer boards.
Download →The first 30 days of a turnaround
What to look at, in what order, when a programme is stuck and everyone has a different story about why.
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"He treated our volunteer chapter with the same seriousness as a board engagement. The structure he left behind still runs without him."
Chapter Director IIBA local chapter · education programme
PMP Programme
A structured path to the exam.
Free 1:1 mentoring for serious candidates. Try the practice exam →
Weeks 1–4
Foundations audit
Map experience to the examination content outline. Identify the genuine gaps rather than the assumed ones.
Weeks 5–10
Structured study
A weekly cadence of domains, practice banks and review calls, built around your working hours rather than against them.
Weeks 11–12
Examination readiness
Full-length simulations, time discipline, and the final go or no-go review before you book the seat.
Varun Vashisht · Principal
About the practitioner
Senior practitioner. Member of the communities I lean on for my own work.
I'm a working PM and BA. Fourteen years on enterprise programmes, currently running an independent practice. This page isn't about that work. It's about the volunteer commitments that sit alongside it.
The craft I make a living from was given to me by the IIBA and PMI communities: the standards, the chapter mentors, the people who answered questions when I was getting started. It's fair to give some hours back, deliberately and structurally, rather than only when someone asks.
14+ yearsEnterprise programmes
PMP · CBAP · PMI-PBACertified
IIBA · PMIActive member
