Recovering a Project in Trouble

Recovery is a distinct discipline from delivery. It starts with an honest diagnosis, usually against resistance, and often ends with a recommendation to stop. This programme covers the assessment, the replanning, and the political work of resetting expectations with a sponsor who has already been told the project was fine.

It runs 6 times over the published calendar, in 6 cities. Every date is the same programme with the same content and the same certificate.

• Assess a troubled project quickly and separate symptom from cause.
• Decide between recovery, rescope and termination on evidence.
• Rebuild a plan that the delivery team believes.
• Reset sponsor and stakeholder expectations without losing support.

Project and programme managers, sponsors, and PMO leads asked to intervene in troubled delivery.

Short input, then work. Across 3 days of roughly 6 teaching hours each, the balance sits deliberately with the second: a programme where the trainer talks for six hours produces notes rather than capability.

• Your own material

  Exercises run on situations delegates bring, not on a case study written for a different organisation in a different decade.

• A capped cohort

  Small enough that everybody is asked something. Executive programmes are capped tighter still.

• Practice under scrutiny

  The difficult conversation, the challenged assumption, the decision defended out loud. Judgement is not built by watching.

• Something to take back

  Each day ends with a thing you can use on Monday rather than a slide deck you will not reopen.

• A rapid assessment framework the delegate can apply immediately.
• A decision paper structure for recover, rescope or stop.
• A rebaselining approach with credibility built in.
• A stakeholder reset communication plan.

A GATI certificate recording what you attended, issued after the programme has run and attendance has been taken. Attending at least 80 per cent of the days earns a certificate of completion; attending less earns a certificate of attendance stating exactly what was attended.

Every certificate carries a code that anybody can check against GATI's own record, which is what makes it worth holding. It records participation. This site will not imply one it does not have.