Door 01 · Explore by Challenge
Project recovery
From red projects to predictable flow, with a decision point at the end of every phase.
The situation
Cost or schedule keeps drifting and more reporting has not changed the trend. Steering meetings are tense and key roles are missing or overloaded.
What it costs
- The overrun grows every month
- Stakeholders stop trusting the plan
- Internal teams are too close to the history to reset it
How we approach it
Practitioners diagnose root causes in about ten days, separating what is broken from what is only uncomfortable. We then reset governance, plan and stakeholder rhythm, and change the ways of working so the same conditions do not return.
A typical path
- DiagnoseAbout 10 days
- CONSULTINGRecovery diagnostic: root causes, overrun trend, trust gaps
- StabiliseAbout 1 to 2 months
- CONSULTINGGovernance and plan reset
- OUTSOURCINGProject manager or quality and test manager to fill the gap
- COACHINGCoaching for the internal programme lead
- SustainMonths 3 to 6
- OUTSOURCINGExternal Talent Onboarding for remaining externals
- TRAININGLessons turned into training for other project leads
- OUTSOURCINGPlanned handover of outsourced roles
- Value levers
- Overrun avoided, schedule recovered, less dependency on externals
- Commercial shape
- Performance-based option: fee linked to overrun avoided or schedule (SPI) recovered. No recovery, no fee.