Salvage a derailed project with these assessment and recovery strategies

Overview Learn how to turn a troubled project around by using a system for assessing current project status and implementing the steps needed to save it.

If you have even a few projects under your belt, odds are good that you've run into some of these signs of trouble:

• No one on the project knows when the project will finish.
• The project's deliverables are loaded with errors and defects.
• Team members are working involuntary excessive overtime.
• Requirements keep changing.
• The morale of the project team is very low.
• Management is considering the cancellation of the project.
• Many work packages have been 90 percent complete for what seems like forever.

When a project looks like it might be heading south, it's essential to rely on a structured process that lets you assess the situation, determine whether recovery is possible, and turn the project around (or save as much of it as you can).

This detailed document looks at the phases of recognition, assessment, and recovery and identifies some situations where the best option is to terminate a project. It then focuses on how to build an assessment plan that identifies the problem and helps put the solution into play. It winds up by explaining how to develop and conduct a recovery plan.

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