A structured approach in getting your project out of trouble

Our innovative, robust and constructive troubleshooting methodology will regenerate your project while minimizing negative consequences and converting your lessons learned into organisational process assets.

There are serious consequences for projects getting out of control:

• Credibility of the project team and the individual members will suffer.
• Credibility of the organization will suffer.
• Increased stress levels for the team, management and key stakeholders.
• Extra funding and resources for the project will deprive other projects from their funding and resources.
• The troubled project may attract intense stakeholder attention on itself and the organization, especially from the media.

When is my project out of control?

Depending on your organization and your project, some early warning signs could be:

• The project is trending towards a 30% or more increase over its estimated budget.
• The project is trending towards being 30% or more over its scheduled timeline.
• The Acceptance Criteria has been dramatically modified to accommodate the development of the product.
• Stakeholders are extremely dissatisfied with the progress of the project.
• A major risk has surfaced that does not appear on the Risk Register.
• A major risk that was reported to be under control is wildly out of control.
• The project team is dysfunctional.
• There does not seem to be a compelling business case for the project.
• There is a lack of status reporting.
• Incomplete, incorrect or vague project work plan.

Project Rescue Process

We use a structured project rescue methodology underpinned by intuitive problem solving:

• Review and assessment of current status
• Co-creative intervention planning
• Intervention execution
• Post-intervention review

Validating your project is in trouble

Before applying any Project Rescue Techniques, we validate that your project is in trouble by:

• confirming project tolerances have been exceeded with the Project Team, the Project Director, and if necessary, the Board.
• confirming through analysis and discussion that the current project plan and strategies will not bring the project back on track.
• confirming that a Project Rescue is an acceptable strategy for the project and the organization  “Leaving things as they are” may be the preferred strategy by Senior Management at that time.

Types of projects

Our rescue processes are industry and project-independent.  Some of the types of projects in which we have been involved:

• Construction projects
• IT projects
• Management systems
• Maintenance management systems
• Quality systems
• Training, documentation and translation projects

Our definition

Implementing effective and sustainable change to a project’s core parameters and/or actual processes and/or team members’ behaviours to realign the project’s performance to the key stakeholders’ expectations.

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