Recovering Troubled Projects

Course Content:

Quick Assessments
o Defining a troubled project
o Sponsorship
o Customer commitment
o Project team member status
o Analyzing your current situation
o Should the project continue?

Finding and evaluating buy-in
o Re-establishing buy-in
o Understanding team loyalty
o Identifying aligned stakeholders
o Team involvement

Examining critical and victory paths
o Identifying resources necessary for critical path completion
o Clarifying critical path milestones
o Understanding victory path items
o Re-setting the project plan

Revitalizing the Project
o Performing a pre-mortem process
o Rebuilding trust
o Aligning stakeholder expectations
o Enhancing risk plans
o The re-kickoff meeting

Communication Planning
o Assessing the existing communication plan
o Accuracy and relevance of status reporting
o Techniques to re-tool the communication plan
o Getting the word out!

Leveraging Staff
o Identifying the skills that do exist
o Matching tasks with prevalent skills

Keeping the project on track
o Managing issues
o Leveraging business process analysis
o Managing absentee stakeholders
o Resolving "turf" wars
o Assessing customer organizational readiness

Preventing the Troubled Project

Developing your own evaluation checklist