When the truth is under a desk, behind a rack door, or in a Wi-Fi name nobody remembers.
Physical inventory of what is actually plugged in: routers, NAS gear, “temporary” PCs, printers with open shares, that forgotten SMTP box energy.
On-prem firewall, Wi-Fi segmentation, endpoint pass, supervised backup restore drill — work that is faster face-to-face than over a grainy screenshare.
One on-site day to lock access and reality, then Sprint execution remote. Best of both — common for shops outside pure desk-work.
Needs: travel window + VPN after day oneLocal delivery does not invent a second product line. It changes where the work happens — not the integrity of the findings.
Travel outside core area: scoped case-by-case